Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-10
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AMILLINRR's SUIT AGAINST A WEALTHY En-.
0LIsHMAH-A HUSBAND NOT RESPONSE.
L FOR HIS wIFE's DEBTs-H0W PEOPLE
OF RANK AND FASHION WERE TREATED IN
GRosvRNOR SQUARE.
The follles OF fashion, aud the extraVs.
gance 70 which q woman 10 impelled by
obedience to certain social laws, has been
ILLUSTRATED in O singular manner In Q suit
brought in London against Mr.. Thistle.
thwayte by q firm OF dressmakers. The
question was o. to his responsibility for
ME wife's debts, and the trial Tor two days
occupied the attention Of q special jury
and the Lord Chief Justice Of the Common
Pleas. When Mr.. Thistlethwayte was
ma, ried be was a younger son, with an
allowance Of about 100000 year. A little
later his elder brother died, and he became
tenant for lite Of estates which brought
him 10 ron tl25. 600 TO Sl65, 900 per annum.
Mrs. Thlstlethwayte mad her own ideas
upon domestic expenditure. and on more
tnan one occasion she diAered with her
husband as ~ what was or was not a Tea.
sonable amount n be yearly expended in
female Vanities. It SCENE that some eight
years ago Mr.. Thistlethwayta came TO an
understanding with his wife; paid her
dests amounting u several thousand dol.
lars; agreed TO allow her $500 q year PIN
money, and accepted in return her written
promise that. upon her word Of honor, she
would incur no further Liabilities. This
promise the lady deliberately broke She
has, since the date OF its execution. incur.
red debts estimated by her creditors at
$4,000, and by herself At from $50 600 20
500, 900. Mrs. Thistleth wayte's creditors
endeaVnred 10 make her husband RESPONSE
BILE en- bl I her liabilities. With this
object q test action was brought by Nine,
SchWaebe, VINO, In c%UnjunctiIn with her
husband, carries IN business at the West
knd as = court mil liner, under the namo OF
mime. ROsalie." Nine. Schwaebe, in the
course OF a very few months, supplied Mrs,
Thistlethwayte with dresses and various
other articles OF feminine apparel to the
extent OF nearly $5,0OO, and then sued Mr..
Thistlethwayte for the amount. The Jury
under the direction Of Lord COleridge,
decided against her claim, on the ground
that throughout her transactions with
MTs. Thistlethwayte she had given credit
20 that lady exclusively In her own person
and not 10 her husband, and that it was,
consequently, to MFs. T~histlethwayte
alone that she must look for payment.
This finding was justified BY the evidence.
Lord C0ierIdge said that none Of the par
ties TO the suit deserved any special gym.
patty; that Mr.. Thlstleth wayte had no
one but himself 70 thank Tor tue result OF
bic own im%prudence; that he had married
q lady Of somewhat extTavagant habits,
and he could hardly complain at the nat
ural and inevitable consequences. Mrs,
Thistle thwayte herself, with her floating
debt OF SlV0, 900, more or less, for jewelry,
dresses, bonnets, etc, deserved, In Lord
COleridge's words, no pity whatever II her
husband refused to pay her liabilities, and
lslt her TO meet them az best she could,
As for the plaintiffs, they too could not OK
pectany greatamOunt Of righteous indigna
lion TO be excited In their favor.
On the last day Of the trial Mr.. Thistle
thWayte wa placed On the WLtness.star {
and was cross-eXamlned by Sergeant
Parry as follows:
Q. Have you allowed her since you
marriage TO dress as che pleased, accord
log TO her taste and her own feelingsi A
II she had dressed according to my taste