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A WIDOW'S POVERTY.
SUED UNDER JUDGEMENTS
The story of a woman's poverty was
told in the Local Court to-day, when,
before Mr. A. S. Roe, P.M., James K.
Cole, grocer, of Albany-road, Victoria
Park, sued Matilda Herrington, of
Mackie-street, Victoria Park, for £3
8s. 11d., being the amount of a judgment
and costs obtained against the debtor
on May 4 last. This summons was
taken conjointly with one in which C.
W. Lawrence, butcher, of Albany-road,
sued for £6 4s. 5d. under a judgment
of the same date.
Mr. E. G. Bateman appeared for the
judgment creditors.
Edward Mervyn Ettles, an agent acting
in the interests of the judgment
creditors in both cases, stated that he
had endeavored to collect the amounts
of the judgments, neither of which had
been satisfied. One of the debts had
been incurred for meat, and the other
for groceries.
Edmund Shelley Barker, manager of
the W.A. Trustee and Executor Company,
said his firm was executor under
a will in which the debtor had an interest,
viz., the will of her late husband.
Under that will she had received
£50 per annum and the whole of
the testator's furniture, etc., £100 in
cash, and a life interest in a cottage at
Victoria Park. Mr. Herrington had
died on November 10, 1908. Debtor had
sold the furniture, etc., and had now
£ 50 per annum and the life interest in
the cottage. Mr. Reginald Harrison
was a co-trustee in the estate.
Reginald Claude Harrison deposed
that he was co-trustee in the debtor's
late husband's estate. Witness had assisted
the debtor, and had paid many
of her debts.
Mr. Roe: I presume that the allowance
under the will has been insufficient
to meet her requirements?
Witness: That is correct. Continuing,
witness said that debtor had no
other means of support, and owing to
its insufficiency he had come to her
assistance to help her along.
Mr. Roo: In the face of that evidence
I can make no order, Mr. Bateman.
Mr. Bateman-: No, your Worship, I
will not ask for one.
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