Lawsuit over Mount Blanc sunglasses
Mont Blanc sunglasses worth R15 000 and a 2019 Range Rover with personalised number plates became the subject of a legal battle in the Western Cape High Court.
The applicant said her estranged husband and her father-in-law removed the possessions, reports Pretoria News.
The car was subsequently returned to the woman.
She is identified as only PM in the judgment as divorce proceedings are pending between her and her husband, RM. Her husband and her father-in-law, identified as GMM, denied they had her designer sunglasses.
Judge James Lekhuleni said the applicant’s suggestion that her husband and father-in-law had conceded that they were in possession of the items in question was misplaced and too opportunistic.
The judge pointed out that the parties had reached an agreement last year that the items found in the car would be returned.
He questioned why the respondents would drag out the proceedings to later fight the issue of the sunglasses, if they really did have them.
‘I am of the view that their denial is not implausible,’ the judge said in turning down her application.
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