Read the full judgment text of HCA 007460/1982 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. This is a sorry tale of unwise speculation which, to borrow a phrase, resulted in a bad case of burned fingers. The plaintiff is a married lady no longer, if she will forgive me for saying so, in the first flush of youth. She told me that she has never learnt to read or write. But that she is a competent and thrifty housewife, there can be no doubt as evidenced from the fact that by April 1980, she had managed over the years to save $210,000, all of which came from allowances made by her husb