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That the Honourable Mr Justice T S Cotran erred in
finding that the Appellant is a man without the
slightest scruple.
That the Honourable Mr Justice T S Cotran erred in
accepting Respondent's evidence above that of the
evidence given by Appellant.
That the Honourable Mr Justice T S Cotran erred in
finding that Respondent's evidence need not be
corroborated in the claim for seduction.
That the. Honourable Mr Justice T S Cotran erred in
not allowing absolution from the instance under
claim A.
That, in respect of the claim for seduction, the
Honourable Mr Justice T S Cotran erred in awarding
damages for the full bohali and not the reduced
bohali by virtue of the alleged seduction.'
I proceed to summarise the facts.
Plaintiff, then aged about 16, met the Defendant, then aged
about 45, at a bus stop in Maseru town. She was looking for work
as a domestic servant. She was an orphan brought up by her
grandfather, but he too had died in 1979 and it would seem as if
she was then destitute.
Defendant did employ Plaintiff as a housekeeper, but there is
a dispute between the parties as to whether there was any agreement
about monthly wages and whether such wages were ever paid.
Plaintiff alleges that it was whilstshe was in Defendant's
employ and some time before May 1980, that Defendant had had intercourse
with her_and that as a result of this intercourse she became pregnant.
The Chief Justice in his judgment summarises her evidence thus :
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