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A farmer's daughter dubbed the "Cowshed Cinderella" is celebrating Thursday after winning a massive payout from her parents.
Eirian Davies, 45, who stayed at home to work on her family's farm while her sisters were allowed to go out on their own, was told that she would inherit the estate by way of compensation for her decades-long toiling.
But that never came to fruition. And following a fight three years ago her parents, Tegwyn, 75, and Mary Davies, 76, started proceedings to evict her.
But Eirian came away victorious with her share of the farm's value after a judge at the High Court in Cardiff, Wales, awarded her around $2 million in damages, The Times reports. (The entire farm is worth over $10 million.)
The paper quotes her telling the court, "They always told me that the farm would be left to me. Even on my birthday, when the other girls were having things, they would say, 'You will have the damn lot one day, it will all be yours.' "
The court also heard that when she left the farm, near Whitland, Wales, to work somewhere else, her father urged her to come back. Eirian's parents also allegedly objected to her having relationships in case she became pregnant and wasn’t able to continue working.
She received no pay until she was 21 and was reportedly paid as little as $25 a day for her work. Her parents maintained that she received free room and board and had a fair income.
The court of appeal ruled in her favor last year, establishing that she was entitled to a beneficial "interest in the business" but the damages total has just now been announced.
Now Eirian is preparing for the next chapter in her life and looked "forward to concluding what has been a very hurtful and distressing period," as her lawyer put it.
http://www.people.com/article/cowsh...avies-wales?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag
Eirian Davies, 45, who stayed at home to work on her family's farm while her sisters were allowed to go out on their own, was told that she would inherit the estate by way of compensation for her decades-long toiling.
But that never came to fruition. And following a fight three years ago her parents, Tegwyn, 75, and Mary Davies, 76, started proceedings to evict her.
But Eirian came away victorious with her share of the farm's value after a judge at the High Court in Cardiff, Wales, awarded her around $2 million in damages, The Times reports. (The entire farm is worth over $10 million.)
The paper quotes her telling the court, "They always told me that the farm would be left to me. Even on my birthday, when the other girls were having things, they would say, 'You will have the damn lot one day, it will all be yours.' "
The court also heard that when she left the farm, near Whitland, Wales, to work somewhere else, her father urged her to come back. Eirian's parents also allegedly objected to her having relationships in case she became pregnant and wasn’t able to continue working.
She received no pay until she was 21 and was reportedly paid as little as $25 a day for her work. Her parents maintained that she received free room and board and had a fair income.
The court of appeal ruled in her favor last year, establishing that she was entitled to a beneficial "interest in the business" but the damages total has just now been announced.
Now Eirian is preparing for the next chapter in her life and looked "forward to concluding what has been a very hurtful and distressing period," as her lawyer put it.
http://www.people.com/article/cowsh...avies-wales?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag