Legal Disputes
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Derry Recorder Tests Lady’s Raincoat for Water Ingress, 1929
From the Derry Journal, 12 April 1929: “TEST IN COURT A LADY’S WATERPROOF INTERESTING DERRY CASE GARMENT RETURNED AFTER EIGHT MONTHS A barrister, two solicitors, the Court Registrar and the Court Caretaker spent fifteen minutes in Derry Courthouse yesterday testing… Continue reading
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Bride Arrested for Shoplifting on Eve of Wedding, 1826
From the Dublin Evening Post, 26 August 1826: “A young lady, moving in a respectable situation in life, was on Thursday committed to Newgate, Dublin, on a charge of shop-lifting. The circumstances of this case are rather curious, and possess… Continue reading
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Barrister’s Son Returns from the Dead, 1896
From the Cork Constitution, 5 March 1896: “DUBLIN WEDNESDAY To-day the Master of the Rolls had before him a case which brought to light a modern Enoch Arden. In 1866 William Henry Boyle, son of a well-known barrister, emigrated to… Continue reading
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The Man of Many Wives, 1884-1895
From the Illustrated London News, 14 June 1884: “At the Dublin Commission Court, before Mr Justice Lawson, on Saturday, Brian Denis Molloy, son of a magistrate for the County of Mayo, and who, on the death of his father, will… Continue reading
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The Man Who Married His Mother-in-Law, 1904
From the Belfast Weekly News, 12 May 1904: “The trial of James Thompson for having married his mother-in-law took place on 10th inst, in the Recorder’s Court, Dublin. Mr Bushe KC, who prosecuted, stated the case for the Crown. He… Continue reading