BURDEN OF MATRIMONY.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1917, Page 2

BURDEN OF MATRIMONY.

A LADY DOCTOR'S BARGAIN. A singular nullity suit was heard in the Divorce Court, London, in wdiich Dr. Arthur Finegan, medical' superintendent of the Union-Mills I.unath Asyluiu, Isle of Man, asked for decree of nullity against his wife, a lady also in the medical profession, and stated to be now practising in Sheffield. Before marriage, said counsel, the lady insisted that thsre should be no children, so that her medical career should 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 wife would appreciate the impossibility of the position, but she had declined.

Dr. Finegan, giving evidence, said his wife was a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery of Aberdeen University. She had been to Serbia in pursuit of her profession. They had lived together, but there was never cohabitation.

Mr. Justice Low dismissed the petition, observing that he was inclined to think that both parties wished to be relieved from the 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 a 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. "