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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 7. 1988.

M.P.'s CLAIM AGAINST HIS RICH WIFE

Marriage Brought Her Income of £70,000 a Year

AN M.P's wife who, before her marriage, had only a small income, but after it became entitled to between £70,000, and £90,000 a year under the will of her grand- father, opposed her husband in litigation in the Chancery Division.

Captain A. S. Cunningham-Reid, Conservative M.P. for St. Marylebone, claimed as binding two deeds, drawn up after the marriage, providing him with part of his wife's income.

Famous-

Legal Figures K.C. ON "WHEN THEY

Six leading logal figures appear in the caso, including four K.C...

Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., Mr. F. R. Evorshed, K.C. and Mr. Valentine Holmes for Cap- tain Cunningham-Reid.

Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., Mr. Cyril Radcliffe. K.C. and

Mr. Charles Russoll for tho defendants.

which he could call his own..

moon.

LIVED HAPPILY"

In

solicitors" what would happen in the

FIVE-YEAR. DISPUTE event of a dissolution of the mor. Another point was connected with riage. She was informed that if she the management of the wife's estate insisted on entering. into a covenant at Newmarket, of which she was to pay her husband one-third of her tenant for lite. income from the companies for life In the course of the management trustees should be appointed and a of that property Captain clause inserted

Cunning- giving them power-ham-Reid sold certain nssets in the event of something happen- respect of which the trustees made Ing to disturb your

Ife to return the shares to oppy claim. It was a complicated mat- to her. fer which had been disputed for five She refused to accept this advice years. In order to build up a capital sum and persisted in entering into the Negotiations were still going on,

Covenant She

said she would be and it was alleged that the husband A method of running joint accounts obliged it the directors of Cunning was responsible for indemnifying his was initiated by a letter of authority ham Securities, Limited, would seal wife against any claim that might to Lloyds Bank, sent immediately the document.

be made against her. after, or in the middle of, the honey- the document was that it was in- and part of the furniture and cllects, One thing abundantly clear from In regard the Brook Street house The Hou, Mrs. Cunningham-Reid, now living apart from her That account was opened and Ittended not to be revocable without it was alleged that they were pur- husband, contends that the deeds are revocable, and also claims was the savings from that joint ac- the cons

the consent of the other party to chased out of the joint account and back moneys spent by the husband. He says they were gifts. accumulating sum for the husband.

count which were to provide an

that, although they had always been It was her own insistence, accord-in the husband's name, he now held Mention of "extensive gambling" by both parties, and the

As there was perfect agreement

Ang

to her own solicitors' letters, them as trustee for the wife. purchase of a yacht, was made by Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., re-between them at that time, nothing which led to the formulation of such There was a single-premium life presenting the captain, during an opening speech which lasted was done about putting matters into a document and to is being in a policy for £100,000 taken out with all day.

writing.

form which

WH did not allow her to the Prudential Compat

Company on Mrs. Matters proceeded normally, and revoke it in such an event as had Cunningham-Reid's life. The interest Before her marriage, Mrs. the wife and upon the companies.

"DEEDS REVOKED"

very large sums were spent on the now occurred. Cunningham-Reid was the Hon.

on the single premium policy was current

The other document, entered into paid out of the joint account. The expenditure of travelling and Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, pose of assuring to the husband a there was a surplus, which was in- ceipts from the Canadian company.

"The deeds were made for the pure the household. From time to thing about two years later, dealt with re-policy was expressed to be in favour younger daughter of Lord Mount portion of the

income, the vested by the husband.

of Captain Cunningham-Reid, On December 2, 1936, Mrs. Cun- Temple and sister of Lady Louis wife being in possession of a very

It was now

alleged that it should After the birth of the first childningham-Reid left her husband in really have been in favour of the Mountbatten.

large income of the value of between the wife became very insistent upon its house at Brook Street without wife, and that she was entitled to She married Captain Cunningham- £70,000 and £00,000 a year from trying to find a way of making Reld in

notice and had since refused to re- the benent of it. the trustees of her grandfather's settlement on her husband and the 1927. She was then co- heiress, with her sister, lo £3,000,000

Then there was a motor-boat, built with"

Sir Stafford said it was

On December 17, she executed two in Paris to the order of the husband, child. The surpluses from the left by their grandfather, Sir Ernest that the deeds were revocable with account were not sufficient, in her dese

claimed

joint

under scal purporting to which was used subsequently in the Cassel, the financier.

revoke, unilaterally, the two docu-Mediterranean. It was also paid for the consent of the husband, and

"SAVING TAXATION" had been duly revoked.

pul of the joint account, and it was "TWO PETITIONS" Counter-claims by the wife in- Immediately after the honeymoon,

wow alleged that the husband held "Since December, 1936," Sir Sint- the motor-boat as cluded one in expended by the husband during Brook Street, W., In the name of the have been started by the wife and

respect of moneys a house had been purchased in ford continued, "divorce proceedings] wife.

trustee for his the ten years they lived together, ut husband. It was paid for and partly there is a cross-petition by the hus-

INVESTMENTS The captain and his wife sat In the joint account of the husband furnished by funds from the joint band against the wife. Those cases, unvestments in the name of the hus- Further, there was a number of

Captain Cunningham-Reid's claim was against his wife, and against} Cunningham Securities, Ltd., and Tommil Holdings, Ltd., companies set up in connection with the estate.

BOTH IN COURT

court at opposite ends of the solicitors' table.

financial

out

ef

and wife,

wife's

late Sir Ernest Casselghter of the wedding present she made him.

view.

account.

Save

turn

ments,

ALLEGATION

BY WIFE

was done for the purpose of carrying out her desire that he should have

some properly and income of his

ntun

✓

own.

The history of the two deeds be-

I understand, are awaiting trial. band which were similarly alleged to By his reply the husband claimed that the moneys were gifts to him with a discussion in July, 1030, adhere strictly to the matters before wife.

"So far as i am concerned, I shall be held by him as trusice for his Sir Stafford Cripps, opening for from the wife.

at a luncheon between Captain Captain Cunningham-Reld, said:

Before her marriage. Mrs. Cun-Cunningham-Reid and his sister-in-might make the position worse be cellaneous payments, made out of the lordship and say nothing that Finally, there were certain mis- This

is a matter which arises be-

ningham-Reid was receiving a com- law, Lady Louis Mountbatten, who tween husband and wife who are now paratively small allowance from the spoke of the formation of an English tween the parties, which would be joint account in cash to the husband, separated, having

certain trustees, and regard to

the prospective hus- company to save

which It was alleged he should repay taxation on her an unfortunate thing to do." transactions which took band had to

Dealing with the wife's counter-as

been having

made provide most of the very large Income.

without place when they were living together. money for her trousseau and for the

As a result, the Inusband and Lord claim, Sir Stafford Crippa said it authority. The wife is the

Louis Mountbatten went to sce

was alleged that all the

of moncy

Sir Stafford said the defence to the Mrs. Cunningham-Reid were paid counter-claim was that, in so far as Mr. Fegler, an expert in such mat- into a joint account at Lloyds Bank, any of these moneys had gone to the "VERY MUCH IN LOVE" "The company, Cunningham

Eventually, Securities, Limited, is

Immediately after the marriage theters.

an arrangement an English wife became an immensely wealthy was made by which all shares were and that authority was given by her beneft of the husband, it was the wira I formed to deal with the woman and, being very much in love in the wife's name, but she executed either to draw on the account for express intention of the wife, and

wife's

Income.

Tommil Holdings, with her

at that time, she} ?

dred by which one-third of her Limited, is Canadian company, was extremely anxious to provide an income accruing from the shares formed for the same purpose.

independent income for him.

was to be was to be paid direct to the husband) "The marriage took place on May He had a very small income, but by the company. 12, 1927, when the wife was a ward under the terms of the will she could

The scheme was that Mrs. Cun-

Mrs. Cunningham-Reld was fully in Chancery. She was then 20 years not sc any

settle

of the property au ningham-Reld covenanted to pay to

acquainted, throughout the period of of age and Court consent had to be him.

the Cunningham Securities, Limited, Cunningham-Reid to have covered course of the transactions through That authority was alleged by Mrs. their happy married life, with the obtained to the marriage. That con- During the honeymoon, in the up to £80,000 of her income and, sent was given by Mr. Justice Rus- south of France, she discussed the in

consideration for that, she got and expenses incurred by the bus-

nothing but household expenses the joint account. sell, as he then was.

250,000 worth of shares in the com- band and wife together-establish- question with her husband and lin-

"PERFECTLY NATURAL" There are two children-one born pressed upon him that some method pany.

Prior to September 2, 1936, she in 1928 and the othes in 1030. The should be found by which she could The second mandate referred ment expenses.

to husband and wife lived together settle some money upon him.

that her husband the sale of 1,000 Deferred shares inningham-Reld withdrew

It was alleged that Captain Cun- was doing until December 2, 1030, when the

Cunningham Securities, Limited, to money from that account at various wife left her husband, and the pre-

ofing the arrangements made between the Canadian company for a con-

them, or that he was doing anything action arises out of certain ar-

sideration of £80,000 in promissory when they were living happily to- proved and, indeed, desired.

times over a period of ten years otherwise than that which he up- rangements made in regard to both

notes, their incomes while they were living

Subsequently, the question of gether, and

those sums were "It seems to be happily together.

perfectly natural Captain Cunningham-Reid's interest Invested or used for the purchase of and understandable that was revived.

property in his name or in some tionate wife, with an assured capital that an affce- other way for his beneft alone. of £2,000,000 In the hands of Mrs. Cunningham-Reld has claim- trustees, and with a very large in ing the return of that money on the basis that her husband was trustee should have some measure of finan- come; should desire that her husband for her in respect of it.

cial cial independence," said Sir Stafford, There was the purchase of certain Counsel added that he did not pro- property on which a second mortgage pose to read letters to show that was taken by the husband. It was there was a great deal of affection now alleged that it was paid for by throughout the married life up to him out of the joint account and, as the time they ported.

Sent

"PERFECT

AGREEMENT”

She suggested that any savings she "The claim by the husband in formade out of their joint Incomes a declaration that certain deeds i should become the husband's pro- entered into are still binding upon Iperty, and should be invested by him

ADVICE REFUSED Mrs. Cunningham-Reid usked her

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It was on the wife's properly, she

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Baise than Implement-

Sir Stafford Cripps had not finished

usked for а declaration that the his opening speech when the hearing mortgage was null and vold.

was adjourned.

£2,000,000 HEIRESS TO

MARRY AGAIN

New York.

"I am going to marry again as soon as the right man comes along," declared Ann Cooper Hewitt, the "sterilised heiress," to-day as she hastened her plans for the annulment of her three- months-old marriage with Ronald Gay, a garage foreman.

"I am not in love with anybody at present."

She has returned her diamond engagement ring, but has cept her valuable wedding ring. "I paid for It," she said.

She Was His Daughter

New York.

"It is going to be hard to leave you now.

You may not be lieve this, but you are the only person ever saw whom I really liked, and you turn out to be my daughter."

This letter, written by Nelson Meese, aged 47, was in the purse of 17-years-old Nellie Hollis when their two bodies were found in the home of the girl's mother in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.

The coroner, Dr. McMurray, re- a case of corded the tragedy as murder and suleide and a terrible

Gay admilled that he has almost given up hope of a reconciliation, "It is too hard trying to be Mr. Ana ending to a strange atory. Cooper Hewitt," he said. "All I want Dr. McMurray attended the girl's Is to return to the quiet life led bo-birth. He said the mother was then tore."

Under her father's will Ann Inherits £2,000,000, but this passes to her mother if sho dies childless, She dropped an action she brought against her mother, alleging that she was tricked into a sterilisation operation,

"Rope Trick" Goes To Sea

Paris. A fokir's горе trick Inspired Michael Leroy, a former flying ace, to produce a device to save men en- tombed in sunken submarines. It is called arackchain, and can be thrown 225 foot into the air, bo coming a rigid column of steel. If Is believed that submarines could be immediately localed by it.

unmarried, but afterwards married a man named Tollis.

He believes the father never saw the child, except at the ilme of her birth. untu. he met her recently and fell in love.

to

Last November Mecse wrote Nellie: ou have filled a place for mo that had been empty for many years. You won't have to tell me in words that you like me-I know you do.. I'm sure you know how I feel about you,"

Ohio Newlyweds 71

Youngstown, O. After knowing each other for 00 years and living as neighbours for 28 years, Mrs. Mary E. Tibbs. and Fater J. Everly, both 71, were married;

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