DIVORCE COURTS.
Home Breaker Ordered To Pay
£5000.
HUSBAND GETS DAMAGES
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received .VI noon.)
LONDON, November 13.
Dr. Gordon Hackney, a former intimate friend and professional attendant, was ordered, in the Divorce Court, to pay £5000 to Howart Willis, a Birmingham auctioneer, for adultery with Mrs. Willis, a daughter of the baronet, Sir William Butler, whose marriage settlement on her was £4000 per year. Mr. Justice Hill said that it was very difficult to express such a loss. The breaking up of a home did not deprive the husband of his benefits of settlement. The wealth position of co-res-pondent did not matter. The injury was just as great, whether it was caused by a king or a beggar. When a man lost his loving wife, damage was not expressible in cash. r
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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