A CURIOUS CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 4047, 15 February 1876, Page 3

A CURIOUS CASE.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, the other day, a midwife sued a man forL6 18s for nursing his wife during her confinement. The man disputed the claim on the ground that as the woman had given a wrong when they were married she was not his wife at all, and consequently he was not liable for any expenses of the sort. It appears that when the defendant remonstrated with his supposed wife on the folly of her act, she gave him another fictitious name, and subsequently another still. She had told him she was a perfectly virtuous woman when she married him, but he had ascertained that she had had two children previously, and both of them were alive, they did not live happily together,-aud consequently parted, she, however, threatening to make him support the two children. She said she loved the fathers of the two children much better than she did him, and had married him in a, fictitious name because she was determined not to live with him. His Worship held that under the circumstances defendant was not responsible for aiiy expenses incurred by his wife in the way of nurse 3, and consequently give judgment in favor of defendant,—‘Font,’