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April 17th decided that a husband can make a claim for damages against a 20- respondent in a divorce suls which is not of the wife commenced till after the death respondent. In the case in question-Kent Atkinson-the misconduct was alleged to have taken place in 1918, 1918, and 1990; Kent died on July 13th, 1981; and the petition was not launched until May 2nd, 1999,
months after bes death. Giving judgment, Mr. Juatico Hill after. reviewing the facts of the setion, said the question was whether such a claim, brought after
the death of the wife, could
be sustain ed at all. So far se was known, no such and it been brought clairs ha
over
before, sort of claim that many mention). was not the were likely to want to bring. It was, how BONO difficulty. It aver, question of son
the tarned upon interpretation of Section 33
of the Matrimonial Causes Ack By that Act the former legislation was abuished, and the Act remodelled the law on the subject as his lordship understood there had to be road into the section the provisions of the Common Law as to actions, and then there had to be struck out
mach of of the Divorce Act-which
then as were inconsistent with the
bad
to be regarded as overkling the Common Law. This no claim for damages could now ba maintained if the adultery had been condoned, for the provision of the Divorca Act overrode the Common Law principle. The present est depended up w gaestling to the principles of the
L.
Commen Law, could an action for criminal conversation be maintained after the death of the wife? and
2. If it could, are there overriding provi- sions of the Divorce Act which say that the action cannot be maintained
In regard to the fest question, there was the wronged husband nad the wrongdoer, The wife was only the means, and there was no more reason why the cause of action should dio with the death of the wife than where the action was for damages for negligence It seemed causing the death of the wife..
to his lordship that an action under Com mon Law could have been maintained by action on the issue of a writ after the death of the wife.
Regarding the second question, his lord-
ship said there
Was
no doubt
that,
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