"LEX TALIONIS" CASE
PETITIONER REFUSED DECREE.
(UNITID FKESS ABSOCUTIOY—CCPMIOHI.) ' (Received 23rd November, 10. a.m;) j LONDON, 22nd November. Mr. Justice Hill, in refusing a decree for restitution of oonjugal rights to Mrs. Harnett, cabled on 14th November, expressed the opinion that the petitioner had shown no sincere desire for restitution.
In the action for the restitution of conjugal rights, heard in the High Court, Mrs. Dorothy Harnett, a novelist, sued Edward Harnett, a barrister. The husband's defence was that his wife lampooned him in print by detailing his life in a story called "Lex Talioniß." The wife, replying, denied that the barrister in "Lex Talionis" represented her husband, and referred him to a notice appearing every month in the magazine, stating that "all characters are entirely imaginary. If the name of a living person happens to be mentioned no personal reflection is intended." The wife's counsel urged that it was not a good ground for refusing to live with a wife that she wrote a book libelling her husband.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 7
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