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JUDGMENT IN LAMMERT-
HIND CASE.
Jalgment wits given yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Wood, Paisne Judge, in the case in which Mesars Lammort Bros, sued Mr. W. B. Hind for 818, being the balance of price for goods purchased by defendant's wife.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12; 1925.
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HON• MR. E, K. HALLIFAX ON
WEMBLEY, ..
The Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax, C.M.G., who has been in England this your 25 Commisioner for Hongkong at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, was among the passengers who returned to the Colony by the a.š. Antenor. ·
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.3
Sir-Early In November you published a telegram from Manila
saying that the Board of Medicni In the course of his judgment Mr. Interviewed yesterday, he ex-Examiners had ruled that the prae- Justice Wood said it was & pressed the view that on the whole tice of Christian Science was 11- case ariking out of the question of the system of Government super- the right of a wife to pledge the vision as against private enter legal. credit of her husband. The plain-prise the previous year, ad proved tiffs waro auctioneers and at two satisfactory, in spite of the fact that public auctions, held on April 14 and the receipts had been less. Jane 3 last the defendant's wife was
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It was not stated on what grounds) that opinion was based and sup pose it was on the assumption that the successful bidder for a number pavilion and buildings at Wembley was contrary to some Act regulat- The disposal of the Hongkong the practice of Christian Science of articles of household furniturs might prove a matter of expense ing the practice of Medicine. But The price of the total purchases rather than profit, commented Mr. I am told that it is not ao.. amounted to over $600. On the Hallifax. The site had to be re- printed conditions of sale appeared "ensh on delivery," but nevertheless stored to its previous condition and the plaintiffs gave delivery on creatit could be easily understood that U. S. A. there are provisions in after both auctions In fact they
with the enormous area of other Acts such as referred to love; gave, delivery from the second buildings to be disposed of and the exempting those who practice heal- tion before the debt incurred by the unsuitability of design for other ing by means other than medicine defendant's wife in connexion with purposes, it was going to be no easy and surgery from the requirements **** [the first auction had been fully is matter.
of the Acts, and in some САЗСЗ charged. The defendant's wife had YOU NEED FIRE PROTECTION: 80 ca erant in two install Exhibition, the Commissioner said mentioned. For instance, in North Speaking of the value of the Christian Science is specifically
ments. The furniture was delivered that although there had been im-Dakota there is the following: to her at an address other than her.mediate financial loss to those own residence and was used
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A Centre of Attraction. principal attraction among all the Hongkong, he continued, was a competing displays and interest
The Applicable Law. Defendant and his wife were coha. biting at all material times of the case. Their own residence was al rendy furnished. Plaintiffs were suing for the balance of the account whichever Ragged throughout. Shops remained unpaid.
ous rules or ceremonies as a formy | of religious worship, devotion er administering or making use of ce healing, provided that the perso assisting or prescribing such do not prescribe or administer drugs
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by Mr. Justice McCurdie in a judg.the value of a half a million dollars the title of hold themselves out ment i 1922: "A person who deals and the Chinese restaurant well with a murried woman on credit does auid its promoters. so, as far as regards a remedy, against the husband, at his own risk.
Continuing, His Honour said mar riage in itself did not give a wife authority to pledge her husband's credit A. busband might give ex- press nathority to his wife or ho might give her authority by a course
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Rot experience showed that In Massachusetts: "The provi- Hongkong, as 2 non-producing sions of the eight preceding sec Colony, dependent for the degree tions shall not be held to discrim of its prosperity or adversity upon inate against any particular school the wast country on whose horders or system of medicine and shall it stood, could not benefit much not apply to persons practising... from a great Empire demonstra-Christian Science."
of conduct by which he implied con-considerations, however, were imbe cited, but the above will show ferred authority to contract with one portant, and the co-operation of that, far from being regarded as or more persons Afler nay authority wife who is living with very part of the Empire was essen illegal in the United States, the her husband, from the fact of colutial to the realisation of the object practice of Christian Science bitation, is held to derive a presump-
in view.
Serious gaps in the 1925 actually recognized in many of the tive authority to contract for her Exhibition would have been very States.Yours, ete, husband but that authority is strictly regrettable.
tion such as Wembley. Imperial Numerous other examples could
limited.
Already Supplied.
This presumption of authority wha one of fact and not of law. It might be rebutted by proving certain facts for instance the husband might rebut it by showing that his wife was al rendy supplied with a sufficient num. ber of the articles in question.
CHRISTMAS MAILS.
BAGS FOR THE 'TAR EAST.
The & President Jackson, which arrived here on Thursday, brought an unusually heavy consignment of Christmas mails for the Vor East no less than 8000 bags for China, Japna and dhe Philippines
In the dispute between the partics on question had arisen of express authority or of authority by estoppel, The plaintiffs, therefore, in order to The sk President McKinley, how- succem Ind to rely on the presump ever, will be the real Christmas ship, live authority arising from cohabita as she sailed from Victoria on No- tion for the wife to pledge her hus-vember 23 and is due here on the band's credit for necessaries.
14th inat, and ia Manila on the 17th.
He was satisfied that the plaintiffs The President Jackson carried 160 had given eredit in this case to the Chinese passengers who are return. defendant and not to his wife, Aing to their native land for the New principal of the plaintiff firm had so
Year's festivities. stated in evidence and he accepter that evidence.
with sufficient Furniture in their residence. On that ground also the plaintiffs' case must fail.
Plaintiffs Could Not Succeed, In spite of the fact that the defen- ant had not deemed it advisable to contest the question of whether the
Lastly the fact that the plaintiffs goods supplied to his wife were were public auctioneers and an necessaries, he fell bound to sayouneed in their printed conditions that having regard to all the of sale "ens on delivery," seemed circumstances he could not believe him to stop then from setting that the plaintiffs had at all times up any presumptive authority in reason lo suppose that, the articles married woman who might be a suc-
in question were required for use inessfit bidder at a publje nuction to the domestic establishment of the de- pledge her husband's credit. fendant and his wife. For that reat He therefore gave judgment for son as well ag for others the plain the defendant. tiffs could not succeed.
Mr. Tind, who appeared yester Having accepted the onus of dieday and at the bearing for himsel proving the presumptive authority as defendant, said he bed already In his wife to contract on his behalf agreed with his friend to pay for the the defendant had succeeded in re-
articles in question. He had con- butting the presumption by showing tested the cast purely and simply that his wife was already supplied as a matter of principle.
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