DOMESTIC UNHAPPINESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 111, 12 May 1936, Page 7

DOMESTIC UNHAPPINESS

WIFE OBJECTS TO MCI HER-IN-LAW HUSBAND'S ATTITUDE [ Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, May IL “With no mother-in-law in the pi<* lure I am sure I could live happily with my husband, and I want to try again,” said Endura Emil Pallan 1 (Mr. Spence) in making application for restitution of conjugal rights in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Callan. Respondent was Harold Pallant, who did not appear. Petitioner sa:d she was married to her husband in Auckland on December 24. 1934. There were no- children. Before their marriage, witness said, she and her husband had been engaged for a long time The ’attor /iven up a good position on which he could have married io look after his mother. This had led to estrangement and her husband had premised before their marriage that he would neve bring his mother into their married life. After their marriage, witness said, her mother-in-law frequently visited their home and subsequently stayed with them. Witness repeatedly protested to her husband, who replied that his first duty was not to his wife but to his mother and that witness could leave if •he did not like it. Witness said that ■.n November last her husband took steps to obtain a lega’ separation and «he went to live with her sister. In addition to herself, her father, mother and brother had attempted to make her husband see reason and the wrong h«' was doing. In answer to His Honour, witness said she did not know whether her mother-in-law’s health would permit her to live alor.e. Medically, her mother-in-law was supposed :o be sound, but she was morbid. His Honour said the position was a highly ur.r.sual one and he would take time to consider his decision. He would ask counsel, in support of hii application ,to submit legal argument to him in writing.