Mr. Carter). K.¢., opposing the arguments advanced for the appellant executor, rested his case upon the proposition that British law recognized no marriage as lawful save that of one man to one woman to the exclusion of all others. No marriage, he said, mee a a Delygamons Renehouatd jevwa, Raha be Reopen sed in under the sanctions of polygamous he was willing to accept the logic-ritish country. Mr. Carter sai
al consequences of that argument, and he would say that if Lee Cheong had married a third wife in British Columbia, the third marriage would be recognized as valid by the Courts and Lee Cheong could not be indicted for bigamy.
rr. Carter asked the Court to sustain the judgment of Mr. Justice McDonald, who held that British law would not recognize the civil status of a wife if her marriage had taken place in, and under the sanctions of, a country which recognized polygonly as lawful. It would follow, argued Counsel, that neither of Lee Cheong's marriages was valid under British law and that the annuities to the Chinese wives must be taxed as if they had been devised to sti served ta: Lis sppedl Worp has just been received that Miss Helen Morse, daughter of Mr. O. R. Morse who attended the Shanghai American School these seems. prior to one 2 graduated from the Boston Hi, "School-on June 20."
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