The Precedent

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Florence Deeks spent fifteen years proving H.G. Wells used her manuscript. She lost and her loss is still Canadian law.

She was sixty-eight, she couldn’t afford a lawyer, and she argued her own case before the highest court in the British Empire.

She lost. Her loss is still cited as Canadian law.

Tuesday: Florence Deeks v. H.G. Wells.

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