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for RESTITUTION OF RIGHTS. MRS HARNETT FAILS. By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright LONDON, November 22. Mr Justice Hill, in refusing a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, to Mrs Harnett, expressed the opinion that the petitioner had shown no sincere desire for restitution. In the action for the restitution of conjugal righs, heard in the High Court, Mrs Dorothy Harnett, a novelist, sued Edward Harnett, a barrister. The husband’s defence was that the wife lampooned him in print by detailing his lifer in a story called “Lex Talionis.” The wife, in replying, denied that the barrister in “Lex Talionis” represented her husband, and referred him to a notice appearing every month in the magazine, stating that “all characters are entirely imaginary. If the name of a living person happens to he mentioned no personal reflection is intended.” The wife’s counsel urged that it was not a good ground for refusing to live with a wife that she wrote a book libelling her husband.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 6
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