FUN IN DIVORCE SUIT
ATTOIINEY-lIUSBAND WINS ELIZABETH, N.J., Jan. 19. Mrs. Benjamin H. Priest was doing all right in her suit for divorce until her attorney-husband began crossexamination. Here is part of his fourhour barrage: “Didn’t yoii force your husband to wear a moustache?” “Yes.” “And prevailed on him to wear spats and carry a cane?” “But that was before we were married. That was when we were onlv •engaged.” j "You got your husband to play bridge and mon'opoly?” “Yes.” “Did you ever 'throw things at your husband?” “I never hit you.” “Didn’t your husbaud take you to plays in New York?” “Yes.” “Didn’t I object when you knitted 'during bridge games?” “I never held up the game.” Advisory master Dougal 'here dismissed the divorce action. Mrs. Priest had contended her husband was “insidiously cruel mentally and physically.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 6
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