PECULIAR LEGAL ACTION.
FIRST OF ITS KIND. (BI CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION —COrlBIOHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived April 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. Decision in the Kent case was given in favour of the husband. The Judge said it' was not the sort of claim many men would be likely to bring. He had never known such a claim to be brought before, but ho had come to the conelusion that under common law an action for criminal conversation could be maintained by a writ issued after the death of the wife. He could not think because the course of Nature made service on the wife impossible, the suit against the co-respondent could not be maintained. [This was a case in which a man who had instituted proceedings for divorce against his wife on the grounds of misconduct—a suit interrupted by the death of the wife—instituted proceedings for damages against the man he had cited as co-respondent.]
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 9
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158PECULIAR LEGAL ACTION. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 9
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