CRICKETERS AT LAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 27, 29 December 1932, Page 8

CRICKETERS AT LAW.

ENGLISH COURT CASE. Two prominent cricketers arc figuring in the Courts, one being the principal in a breach of promise suit, anil the other supporting his wife in a damage claim against a firm of butchers because she found drawing-pins in a pork pie. Mrs Doris Nichols. wife of the Essex cricketer, M. S. Nichols, was awarded £2OO damages against Multiple Butchers, owing to two drawingpins. in a pork pie she ate, causing her live weeks of illness. Defendants admitted negligence, stating that the pies had been placed on a table on which were drawing-pins, which were not seen. A Sussex cricketer, Parks, was sued for breach of promise and damages by Miss Edith Berry, 25, whose counsel said that the couple were neighbours in Hayward's Heath, and formed a friendship in 1920, becoming engaged in 1929. Parks cooled off last summer, and the final break came when lie left Miss Berry sitting in a pavilion alone for three hours while rain stopped play. Parks declined to explain his inattention. and said: “We had hotter part. The jury awarded £175 damages to Miss Bcrrv. Mr Justice Hawke, summing up, said he gathered that cricket was rather important in Sussex, and that a successful cricketer in the county would bo regarded os a bit of a catch. The jury might decide that a certain amount of glamour attached to Parks, which Miss Berrv might have expected to share, but had lost, after waiting For six years. Mnnev and happiness wore on a different plane, lie added, hut Miss Berry was entitled to something tor her disappointment.