Justice Windraeyer refused to condemn it, and made some
remarks upon the disastrous effects which the exercise of
unjust though legal marital rights can have upon an un-
fortunate wife and society in general. He commented upon



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the case of a woman, married to a drunken husband, steadily
ruining his constitution, ruining his family, bringing children
into the world to be inevitably depraved hke himself, who is
obliged, although loathing it, to submit to her husband. This
is, of couse, an injustice to the wife, and needs amendment.
