JUDGE REBUKES WOMEN
BREACH OF PROMISE ACTIONS ASSERTION OF INFERIORITY By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Saturday. A breach of promise action in which a woman barrister and three jurywomen were engaged prompted Mr. Justice McCardie, who is a bachelor, to declare that such cases were an assertion of woman’s irferiority. He had rarely heard a breach of promise case in which a man proceeded against a woman. His Honour said women came forward as the weaker sex to recover damages under a law which had been drawn up when she was an economic slave, although she had now asserted herself as man’s economic equal. He added: “You have to consider the matrimonial market. If to-morrow this woman should meet another man of character ar.d sobriety who is earning £7 a week she will gain instead of losing. She says sne has lost hope, but hope revives quickly in the breast of an unmarried woman.” The jurvwomen retaliated by awarding the girl plaintiff £IOO damages A. and N.Z
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 1
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