JUDGE SHOCKED
UNFORTUNATE HUSBANDS. TO PAY UNFAITHFUL WIVES. After adjudicating in nearly 30 matrimonial eases at Manchester Assizes Mr .Justice Rigby Smith said lie heard things in the court which shocked and grieved him. “But it is not my business," lie added, to express disgust at what goes on, so I won’t.” Later he said: “The more I sit in these courts the more startled 1 am at the ease with which an unfaithful wife appears to get a maintenance order in the police courts, and the respectable husband finds himself in the police court because he cannot pay. “I must have heard three or lour cases to-day in which perfectly respectable husbands have proved perfectly good cases of unfaithfulness mi the part of their wives and have si ill been ordered to pay maintenance, and in one case sent to prison for not paying it."
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17385, 23 April 1928, Page 3
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