WHOSE MONEY?
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JUDGE SATS IT IS WIFE'S BOOKMAKER'S TRICK FAILS.
WELLINGTON, This day. Judgment in the ease which opened in the Supreme Court on AYednesday, before Alr Justice MacGregor, In which Richard Coxon, Imokmaker. of Wellington, procceded again.st Laura Louise Coxon, his wife, for £1000, or for an order declaring flint the money was his propertv, was given in favour of the defendant. "1 am satisfied," said the .indge, "that this court shouhl not interfere and slionld not assist tlie ])laintiff in carrying out an unla-vvful agreement. It is equall.v elear tliat it is open to the defendant to set np the unlawful agreement as a defence. Tndeed, if it is not eontended it is the duty of the Court set up the defence." Costs were given to the defendent on t&e lowest scale. The sum was given, stated the judge. by the ])laintiff, to his wife, m order to eoneeal the amount he was making at hookmaking.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 9
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161WHOSE MONEY? Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 9
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