FINDING A WIFE

Inangahua Times, 22 August 1931, Page 1

FINDING A WIFE

CLAIMS FOR COMMISSION FRIEND LOSES IN TWO WAYS A lonely Frenchman of close on fifty years of age, M, Raillard, was seeking a busines- and a wife to look after it. He had much greater diffi culty in finding a wife then a business, and in his perplexity he handed over the delicate mission to a friend, M. Netta. He signed a document agreeing to pay M. Netta £IOO commission. M. Netta, in his turn, entrusted the actual work of discovering a suitable lady to a man who, a reader on the “ Journal Officiel,” is appro' | priately nam;d Dry- M. Net'a I agreed to pay M. Dry a pourboire ol £25. A lady was found, and M.and Mme RaiU rd went eff on their honey, moon. But on their return the bridegroom refused to pay M, Netta his £IOO on >he ground that as his wife was without a dot she was not the treasure for which he had stipus ] lated. The Court to which M. Netta resorted rejected his claim, ruling that such a contract was contrary to public interest. Then M. Dry stepped forward in another Court and sued M. Netta for his £25- This tribunal upheld the validity of the claim as between the two agents. Thus while the bridegroom has escaped sco'-lree and gained a wife, albeit without a dowry M. Neita has to pay j£2s to | M. Dry.