'A dispute between husband and wife came before his Honour Judge Grain at: H. M. Supreme Court on Monday, Mrs. J. Doylend bringing an action against Mr. P. J Doylend for the return of certain furniture, or its value, $4,120.
Mr. ©. Mansel Reece, for plaintiff, said that for some years past plaintiff had had a certain amount of difficulty in getting on with her husband. She was a woman who followed the vocation of a boarding house keeper, and followed it very successfully, and matters had reached a stage in which she felt she was able to conduct her business and live without the assistance of her husband. In the writ, which plaintiff drew up herself, she claimed that certain furniture had been wrongfully detained by her husband. The position was rather an extraordinary one, in that the furniture she was claiming was in her own house. Counsel asked that the "return day" be set back, and during the adjournment he would
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