HUSBAND HUMBLED

Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1045, 11 November 1947, Page 3

HUSBAND HUMBLED

CONDUCT OF WIFE DIVORCE 1 THE SEQUEL A barrister whose wife had humiliated him by “giving him lessons in manners” was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court, states a message from London. He is Norman Francis Edmunds, ex-assistant legal remembrancer to the Punjab Government, Mr. Justice Willmer said the husband claimed that the wife regarded him as her social inferior, who came from an inferior school, and that she had used disparaging epithets about him publicly. The husband gave evidence that once when he and his wife were driving to his Lahore olfiec.thcy had a dispute. She knocked off his hat as they alighted, and it rolled across the load in full view of everyone. He had to send a servant to retrieve it. . She struck him with her list in front of other passengers aboard an India-bound ship, Edmunds complained. She hit him between the. ryes on another occasion, bending his spectacles. She also destroyed a file of documents which he had brought home to work on, leaving him to “make his peace” with the head of his department,

The judge commented : “Here is a husband who lias suffered humiliation and has been wounded in his pride and self-es-teem by wholly unnecessary acts performed by his wife, which 1. am

satisfied were done with the intention of hitting where it would hurt most.” He-added that a complete case ol cruelty had been- made out, and dismissed the wife’s cross-petition.