HUSBAND’S RESPONSIBILITY
A SLANDER ACTION DAMAGES AWARDED Pre*;i Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* LONDON, November S. (Received November 6, at 11.20 a.m.V “One of the remaining privileges of a husband, if it can be called a privilege, is that he is responsible for the one thing that Jho cannot control, that is bis wife’s tongue,” said Mr Justice Avery in giving judgment for £«00 damages in a case m Which Miss Flanders (a dog breeder) sued Sir Charles and .Lady Eves for slander and assault. It was alleged that Lady Eves struck and abused the plaintiff, complaining of i;he neglect of three dogs boarded at her kennels during Lady Eves’s honeymoon Sir Charles Eves was jointly sued on the ground of the husband’s responsibility for his wife’s torts.
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Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 10
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125HUSBAND’S RESPONSIBILITY Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 10
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