"HUSBAND SHOULD RETREAT."
Mr. Justice ICunke], of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (U.S.A.), Courts, thus lays down tho "domestic law" : —
"A man has full rights' in his own home against everybody but his wife, and when the wife starts a- quarrel it is tho husband's business to retreat.'.'
Other epigrammatic judgments passed by tho Bench on the same occasion—a successful plea by a wifo for a. maintenanco order against 'her husband—were: —
"If a husband is afraid of his wife he should run away."
"When a husband puts a. wifo in his homo ho oannot complain' about her treatment. Ho had a big field to draw from, and he took her in preference' to all the rest."
Counsel for the husband, pleaded that this was "a hard Tule." "It's tho only safe one," rejoined the judge, "and it ought to teach men to bo very careful in thoir selection of wives."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 11
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