A Wife and Her Money.
(IKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DuNEDiw t Thursday. An action under the Married Women's Property Act was commenced m the Supreme Court. Mrs Dalbezhall seeks repayment from her husband of £1114, which had been willed to her by her father for her own separate us*, but which was handed over to her husband under coercion or threats of deserting her. She also prays that he be declared a trustee, and made to furnish accounts. The husband denies that the money was received under coercion. Defendant was a bank clerk m Dunedin when news wag received by his wife of having been left monej' by her father, who died m Ireland. The husband, according to the statement for the plaintiff, got the will, and as he said he would lose his pension from the bank if the matter were known, got his wife to say nothing about it. Defendant got possession of the money, bat though she had been continually fighting- with him over it she could get no satisfaction. In the then state of the law she could do nothing. The cane is not concluded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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189A Wife and Her Money. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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