A CURIOUS CASE
ALLEGED TO HAVE LAMPOONED HER HUSBAND. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). LONDON, November 14. (Received November 15, 8.5 p.m.). A curious restitution case was heard today by the High Court, when Mrs Dorothy Harnett, a novelist, sued Edward Harnett, a barrister, her husband, whose defence was that his wife lampooned him in print by detailing his life in a story called “Lex Talionis.” The wife, replying, denied thpt the barrister in “Lex Talionis” represented her husband and referred him to a notice appearing every month in the magazine “that all the characters were entirely imaginary and that if the name of a living person happened to be mentioned, no personal reflection was intended.” The wife’s counsel urged that it was not good ground for refusing to live with his wife that she wrote a book libelling her husband. Mr Justice Hill: I’m not so sure about that. The case was adjourned.
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Southland Times, Issue 19098, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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152A CURIOUS CASE Southland Times, Issue 19098, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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