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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 April 1917, Page 5

A singular nullity suit was heard in the Div,orc e Court, London, in which Dr. Arthur Finigan, medical superintendent of the Union Mills Lunatic Asylum, Isle of Man, asked for a decree of nullity against his wife, a lady also in the medical profession, and said to be now practising at Sheffield. Before marriage, said counsel, the lady insisted there should be no children, so that her medical career would not be interfered with. She carried her insistence so far that there was a written document to this effect. The husband had reason to believe that the wif e would appreciate the impossibility of the position, but she declined. Dr. Finigan, giving evidence, said his wife had been to Serbia in pursuit of her profession. Justice Low dismissed th e petition, observing that he was inclined to think both parties wished to be relieve from a burden which they had taken on themselves. Where a husband entered into a bargain of this sort, which he did not desire to keep, one had not much sympathy with him, and so far as the woman was concerned, where she entered into a contract of matrimony, wilfully intending not fully to carry it out, one had no sympathy with her.