DOMESTIC PROBLEM.
AUTHOR'S ENTANGLEMENT. LONDON, Feb. 9. An unusual matrimonial case was before the King's Bench, when the wife of the author, Ford Madox Hueffer, obtained a perotual injunction against Miss Violet Hunt to prevent her from describing herself as Mrs Hueffer. The applicant explained that her husband left her with two children in 1909, and the following year her husband, and Miss Hunt lived together. Though there were grounds for divorce, Mrs Heuffer could not seek one because she was a Roman Catholic. It was .stated on behalf of Miss Hunt that Hueffer gave her to understand that ho had obtained a divorce in Germanv from his first wife. They then went through the marriage ceremony, which Miss Hunt believed was legal The applicant brought the ease because Miss Hunt, who is a writer and who had signed letters to the press with the name "Violet Hunt Hueffer.— A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 61, 11 February 1925, Page 5
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