WIFE’S EXTRAVAGANCE.

Shannon News, 29 November 1929, Page 3

WIFE’S EXTRAVAGANCE.

£2400 A YEAR NOT EONUGH.

HUSBAND’S DUTY,

(Published in “The Times.”)

LONDON, Friday.

“A husband is bound to maintain his wife and children, and must therefore earn a living. It is for him to choose how and where to earn it. ’ ’ said Mr Justice Hill, delivering judgment in the Divorce Court.

An unnamed wife sued for the restitution of conjugal rights. The husband, who was a member of a firm of Calcutta merchants, pleaded that he had justly refused to live with her in India owing to her extravagance. He stated that he allowed her £2400 a year while she was living in England, but she incurred £17,000 in debts in four years, which he paid. She borrowed from the moneylenders, issued dishonoured cheques, approached his friends and finally asked his partners to make an advance against his account, causing them to notify him that if he brought out his wife to India ho must leave the firm.

The judge said that there was no desertion under such circumstances, seeing that the husband offered tq maintain his wife elsewhere.