UNFIT TO MARRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 20 March 1920, Page 5

UNFIT TO MARRY.

United Press Association —By Elec trie Telegraph-Copyright. Received March 30, 10 a.m, London, March 18.

Justice Darling awarded a farthing damages without costs in a breach of promise case in which defendant said he broke his promise because he considered he was unfit to marry owing to ill health, due to the war. He called medical evidence to show that he was nervous and subject to paralytic attacks and battle dreams. Justice Darling said there should be an implied term in proposals of marriage that the parties were able to marry without endangering their own lives, or the risk of having idiotic children. Marriage was a very serious under taking and the children should be considered by law and the State even before they were born. He believed that in this case the children would probably have been wretched and a burden if not a danger to the State. There was already quite enough of such people.