UNFITNESS TO MARRY
— JUSTIFICATION FOR BREACH OF PItOMISE. London, March 18. Mr, Justice Darling awarded a farthing damages, without costs, in a breach of promise case, in which the defendant said i he broke his promise because he considered he was unfit to marry owing to ill-health duo to the war. He called medical evidence to show that he was nervous and subject to paralytic, attacks and dreams of battle. Mr. Justice Darling said there should bo an implied term in proposals of marr riage that the parties were able to marry without endangering their own lives or risk having idiot children. Marriage, was a very serious undertaking. Child-, ren should be considered by. the law and the State even Before they were born. He believed that in this ease the children would probably have been wretched
and a burden if not a danger to the State. There were already quite enough such people.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesti.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 5
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156UNFITNESS TO MARRY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 151, 22 March 1920, Page 5
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