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· HUSBAND LIABLE FOR WIFE'S DEBTS.

INTERESTING SHANGHAI -CASE.

An interesting legal point in connec tion with husband's liability regard, ing

debts contracted by his wife was raised by Mr. T. Addis in the British Court. at Shanghai Inst werk, hefire, dis Honour Julge Peter Grain.

The case was one in which Lane, Craw- ford & Co., Ltd and Domber & Son, Ltd., and R. F. Wrench for 39973 and Sanos respectively for household goods

GIRL'S GARTERS COMEDY. NOCTURAL VISITOR CAUGHT BY

THE POLICE.

The mystery of the disappearance of a girl's garters, which has for some time perplexed the people of Meissen in Sax- ony, has just been satisfactorily cleared. up, says the Cou'ral News Berlin corres pêndent,

For several works past the girl fre quently complained to her father that when she awake in the morning she found her silk garter had disappeared.

The father was unable to and any trace of

hule But he bought her new garters every time one pair dis appeared, and then had her bedroom dour locked and boltei on the insi when she retired for the night.

Still the

supplied. The two plaintiffs' names were he was collar about, the mise, mid:

compled, as Mr. Tycho Wing 445: plain- riff), explained that the two firms were connected.

Defendant said he had been married about two years, He always gave his wife the cheque, which he received as tective mater disappearest, add a de

hidden in the girl's bod com throughout one hight.

his salary, and she put it into her own

At dawn The secret was revegleit for a private banking account. Defendant could not draw in his wife's banking squirt came through the tiny bedroom count. He had an account of his own,

for the girl's cloths, mixed one Barter, went back through the window, and in two minutes returned for the wond Earter.

! but but only a few dollars in it. Hiew, which had been left,ajar, tande

household, was managed entirely by his wife, anul he had nothing to do with it as all From October, 1993. antil Jani, 1924 (the period covered by the bills in question) defendant was away from Shanghai, travelling. The bills during the titue he was away were larger than when he was at haine with his wife.

M. Addis submitted that the defend ant was not liable: Defendant gare his full salary to his wife every mouth (Ts. 450), which she put into a separate bank- ing account. If a man gave his salary to his wife that fact alone, counsel sub- mitted should drhar her pledging his credit in any way –

His Honour held that a wife who had been living with her husband was deemed to have implied authority to contract on his behalf, and the onus was on the husband to show that he was not liable. There were various ways in which the hasbal night show that he was not able, He could show that he had given notice or drawn up an arrangement with his wife refusing to allow ber credit giving her

definite allowinee. In the ense in ques tion defendant said he gave his wife ail bis salars, but his Honour had By rvid- ence before him that he made any ar rangement to the effect that he would have no farther liability with reference to the running of the household. There. was certainly no evidence that he had Be given notice to the shopkeepers. raust have known that his wife was ob taiming credit, because that was the 4 ordinary procedure in Shanghai shops allowing goods to be taken away and paricent to be made it the end of the month, but he buil done nothing to let shopkeepers know that he was not liable. to pay.

Judgment was entered in favour of plaintiffs, with costs.

search was made afterwards" on the roof. and there at a spot where the large bough of a tree actually touched the dates the police came across the squirrel's nest, which had been made, among other material, of twenty garters, torn to shreds.

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