MARRIAGE AND HEALTH.
( A JUDGE'S OBSERVATIONS. j By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. ( London, March 18. Mr. Justice Darling awarded a farthing damages, without costs, in a breach of promise case in which tho defendant said lie broke his promise because he was unfit to marry owing to ill-health due to the war. He called medical evidence to show that he was a nervous subject suffering from paralytic attacks and battle dreams. Mr. Justice Darling said that it should be an implied term in proposals of marriage that parties were able to marry without endangering their own lives or risking having idiot children. Marriage was a very serious undertaking, and children should be considered by the law and the State even before they were horn. He believed in this case the children would probably have been wretched and a burden, if not a danger, to the State. There were already quite enough such people.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1920, Page 7
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153MARRIAGE AND HEALTH. Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1920, Page 7
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