AMERICAN SOCIETY ACTION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 12

AMERICAN SOCIETY ACTION.

CLAIM BY SURGEON'S WIFE,

Aii action for £200,000 damages lias been filed in New York by Mrs, Catherine Blake, wife of an eminent surgeon, against Mrs. Kathcrisie Diier Mackay, wife of Mr. Clarence Mackay, tlie cablo magnate, who was one of the acknowledged leaders of the so-called "Four Hundred." A few weeks ago Mrs, Blake applied to the Supremo Court for an allowance of £300 a month ami £1000 counsel's fees, ponding tiie trial of an action for separation from her husband. She declared that her husband, as one of the leading surgeons of New York City, had an incomc of from £15,000 to £20,000 a year, and was allowing her only £120 a month. In a statement of complaint against Mrs. Macka.v, 'the plaintiff alleges that tho defendant, "by wicked and wrongful acts, blandishments, flatteries, awl seductions," has alienated the affections of Dr. Blake, and induced him to live apart from tho plaintiff, depriving hor of his "affection, support, protection, society, consort, and comfort." Tho plaintiff adds that as a result of tho wrongful acts of the defendant "tho earning capacity of Use plaintiff's husband has been for somo time past, and still is, greatly reduced, to hor damago in tho sum of £200,000." ■ Mrs. Mackay den ins these charges. She. describes Mrs. Blake as having "a jealous disposition and an ungovernable temper," and alleges that tho plaintiff since. ISOS has had no lovo for liter husband, but oil the contrary "has sought to injure his good name by constantly spreading among his patients, friends, and relatives falso and unjust rumours and accusations against him regarding intimacy with other women and his 'neglect of his - marital obligations." Mrs. Mackay declares that tho plaintiff has repeatedly expressed a desire to rniii her hnsbninl and repeatedly threatened to kill him, the result being that Dr. Blake has not lived with his wife since 1904, long before the tints when he knew or had any acquaintance with the defendant.