HUSBAND OF NOVELIST
ALLEGED LAMPOONING.
WIFE'S SUIT FAILS.
A. and N.Z. LONDON, Nov. 22. Mr. Justice Hill, in refusing an order for restitution of conjugal rights to Mrs. Dorothy Harnett, expressed the opinion that the petitioner had shown no sincere desire for restitution.
Mrs. Dorothy Harnett, a novelist, sued her husband, 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 Talipnis." The wife denied that the barrister in "Lex Talionis" represented her husband, and quoted a notice that appeared every month in a magazine in which the story was published. "That all the characters are entirely imaginary. If the name of a living person happens to be mentioned, no personal reflection is intended." Counsel for the wife urged that it was not good ground for refusing to live with a wife that she wrote a book libelling her husband. v : Mr. Justice Hill remarked: I am not so sura of that.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11
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