A consent arrangement for the maintenance of Lady (Constance Sydney) Swettenham was approved by Lord Justice MacKinnon, Lord Justice Luxmoore, and Mr. Justice Macnaghten in the Court of Appeal on May 24, The contested point of the inclusion of her capital in the purchase of an annuity was settled by the use of a part of it.
Her husband, Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, formerly Governor of the Straits Settlements, had been granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court last year under the new Act, on the ground of her incurable insanity It was stated that the husband was nearly 90 and the wife 80.
The settlement announced by Mr. Noel Middleton, K.C., on behalf of the husband, safeguarded the maintenance of Lady Swettenham to the extent of £750 a year. and a sifnilar annuity if her husband predeceased her.
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