ETHICS OF MARRIAGE.
BROKERS" AND THEIR TRADE AMERICAN JUDGE'S VIEW. . The trade of a "marriage broker" has been declared to he "against public . . policy" by Judge Frank Smith in an unusual case before the Court of Common fleas in Philadelphia. The plaintiff, Nathan Packerman, alleged that the defendant, Harry Schuster, had engaged liini to "interest" a young man in his daughter, Miss Rose Schuster, aged. 21, promising him £IOO if he succeeded. Packerman averred that he performed his duties so well that an engagement was entered into between Miss Schuster and a Mr. Hyman Cohen. He thereupon called upon Schuster to pay tirn the promised reward. "Marriage is understood to be the free and voluntary union of one man and one ,woman- to the exclusion of all others," paid the judge. "It is essential that the union he voluntary or. free from the power of influence brought to bear upon either of the parties bv some more experienced or powerful will."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20474, 28 January 1930, Page 8
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161ETHICS OF MARRIAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20474, 28 January 1930, Page 8
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