A NOVELIST'S HUSBAND
RESTITUTION PROCEEDINGS. LAMPOONING PLEADED AS DEFENCE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigfit LONDON, November 14. (Received November 15, at 8.5 p.m.) A curious restitution case was heard in the High Court, when Mr» Dorothy Harnett, novelist, sued Edward Harnett, barrister. The husband's defence was that his wife lampooned him in print by detailing his life in a story called "Lex Talionis." The wife, replying, denied that the barrister in "Lex Talionis" represented the husband, and referred him to a notice appearing every month in a magnzine—"That all the characters are entirely imaginary. If the name of a living person happens to be mentioned no personal reflection is intended." The wife's counsel urged that it was not a good ground for a husband refusing to live with his wife that she wrote a book libelling her husband. „ Mr .Justice Hill: lam not so sure about that. The proceedings were adjourned.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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