NO PROFIT IN WIFE'S FROCKS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 25 February 1913, Page 6

NO PROFIT IN WIFE'S FROCKS.

A dressmaker's establishment in the Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, sued M. and Mine, Goloubeff, members of the Russian colony in Paris, for £920 for dresses and mantles supplied to the Wile, , The husband asked for his name to be struck out of the case as he was separated from his wife. The courtJiftld that in certain cases, when the husband's estate was distipct from that of his wife, he might , still bo called upon to pay her bills. But in the present instance, where the husband was actually living apart from bis wife and had no means, of checking any extravagant; expenditure on her part, arid did not profit by tlio elegance of her attire,. he coula not be held responsible..