“THIS TOUGH CASE”

Shannon News, 1 April 1927, Page 3

“THIS TOUGH CASE”

NEW YORK, January 23. The United States, which shows n-K intention of imitating Britain in prohibiting the publication of evidence in the Divorce Court, is chuckling to-day oyer the following classic verdict rendered in the courts in Pennsylvania by Judge Henry A. Fuller:— "This tough case could and should have been heard in one hour privately before a judge in Chambers instead of being paraded with a public disclosur< of its prurient details for days and months .before a Matter with all th. pomp and paraphernalia of a court in session including tipstaves. "The applicant seeks divorce to be relieved from an alimonial obligation. The respondent fights it to retain an alimonial contribution. In her favour we decide against the divorce; in hii favour we decide against alimony ._ This leaves open the door to a reconciliation befitting mutual adaptation. "She was evidently disagreeable, but «o, too, was he. In her own coin, pri:eipal and interest, he paid her back. We think he wanted her to go and speeded her departure. If, as he swears, she made his life a hell upon earth, he must have rejoiced in the riddance. _ "These parries give each other the I; .e on every detail of their testimony. The nearest approach to agreement was when she swore that he was 'rerututly drunk, while he swore <' I have many times been intoxicated,- ;hut neve drunk." Lexicographically, on that noint at k'ast, they are not far apart, but on every other they do dreadfully diverge We decline to make a decree . "