RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT,

Temuka Leader, Issue 991, 15 August 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT,

Temuka—Mondat, Aug. 14, 1882 (Before S. D. Barker and J. Mendel«OD, Esqrs., J.P.'a] NEGLECTING TO VACCINATE. Isaac Greenaway was charged with having neglected to have his - child vaccinated. The defendant said he did not believe in vaccination. Mr Mendel son said the law would compel him to get his child vaccinated. If he would persist in disobeying the order of the Court he would render himself liable to a fine of £4O, and to bo brought up every week until he had his child vaccinated. The defendant said he would never consent to have his child vaccinated. If that was the case he would have to leave the country altogether. lie was fined 40s and costs. CIVIL CASES. Cumming and Haves v. John William s—Claim £2 lGs 6d. Mr Johnston appeared for the plaintiff. The amount was due for medical attendance. Dr Hayes proved that the amount was still due. The defendant said the debt had been contracted before his marriage. Mr Mendelscn asked Mr Johnston whether he was prepared to quote au-

thorities showing that the defendant was responsible for debts contracted by his wife before his marriage.

Mr Johnston said he was not at that moment.

Dr Foster said there could be no doubt as to the responsibility of the defendant for debts constructed by his wife before marriage. The defendant said that so far as he knew all the medical attendance his wife received was while she was a servant in the employof Dr .Camming. She then had a sora [...finger, and. that was all. Mr Johnston: Yon admit your "marriage with Isabella Washington? Defendant: No I don't. ' Mr Mendelsop : Do you admit the marriage-at all ? Defendant: I admit marriage with Rebecca Washington. Mr Johnston : Oh! Rebecca Washington, then. Defendant: Surely I am not to be made to- pay for her since the day she was born.' She was not of age when I married her. Mr Johnston said that if Bhe was net the defendant was still liable, as medicme and medical attendance wera absolute necessities. The defendant : Yes, but her parents ought to pay for her up to the time when she became of age. The defendant then entered the witness box; and swore that according to the marriage license his wife was not of age when he married her. Mrs Washington, the mother-in-law of the defendant, was called, and swore her daughter was orer 21 years when the defendant married her. After a short adjournment, Mr Johnston produce! authorities to show that a husband was liable for debts conracted by a wife before her marriage, eren if she was not of age, so long as they were absolute necessaries. The Court decided that medicine and medical attendance were absolute necessaries, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for the amount claimed and costs.