The Archive · 1938

On His Behalf

When the case opened Mr, G, G. Baker, for Messrs. Maples, read from a document in which Miss Royle said that he gave orders to a representative of Maples on behalf of Viscount Kingsborough, and told him that the account was to be sent to Messrs.

Chesterton and Ca., solicitors.

Mr, Baker said that the representative would say that the only instruttion was that the address for communications was Messrs, Chesterton's.

It was in Septembef, when she was being pressed for payment, that Miss Royle informed Messrs. Meple that the work was being done on the instruction of Viscount Kingsborough.

Mr, Tudor Jones, for Miss Royle, said his case was that Lord Kings-borough was responsible for the whole of the claim, Miss Royle, giving evidence, said that in 1930 Lord Kingsborough took a flat and she lived with him, She gave up her living at which she earned £10 a week as an actress and mannequin, After a quarrel and break Lord Kingsborough later informed her that he could arrange for her to continue living as she was before in another flat. He also said that he would pay for the expenses of removal, storing and so on.

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