A NOVEL APPLICATION.
HUSBAND’S BANKRUPTCY
ANNULLED.
[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, July 13. : What was described by. the Chief Justice as a novel application was decided in the Supreme Court by his Honor to-day. The case was the first of the kind in New Zealand, and was in the form of- an application by Margaret Atkins, wife of a railway servant drawing £355 per year, to annul her husband’s bankruptcy. The parties had been separated since' October, 1899. The hiisbanaTa greed to pay his wife £2 per week for the first year, and £2 10s per week thereafter, but never paid, more than the former sum, and was sued for arrears. ’He then filed’ his schedule. Bankrupt stated that there was a moral agreement by the wife to accept £2 per week, ahd altogether he had paid her and the children £IBOO. The Chief Justice, in giving judgment, said it was a deliberate attempt to get rid of an agreement for the support of the man’s wife and family. There could not be a, clearer abuse of the ’Court than in this case, and the bankruptcy would be annulled, with costs amounting to five guineas against the husband,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3269, 14 July 1911, Page 3
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197A NOVEL APPLICATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3269, 14 July 1911, Page 3
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