Camden, N. J., Mar. 9.—(AP)—Suit to force a husband to pay more “table money” for his board was argued today in the chancery court here. The case was regarded as without precedent in this tribunal.
Mrs. Aida O. Smith, Palmyra, N. J., complainant in the suit, testified she demanded a minimum of $20 weekly from her husband, Walter E. Smith, a druggist, employed at Roebling, N. J. The husband testified his wife threatened to consider him “only a boarder” if he fell below her minimum. Smith declared his wife owned their home and possessed property.
“I told her,” he said, “If was only a boarder I would give her only a boarder’s board and cut the allowance down to $10. She then cut down my food, and I threatened to reduce the allowance to $5. Then she brought the case into court. In every other respect she Is an ideal wife.”
Vice Chancellor Leaming ordered the case continued for a later hearing with the remark: “Both of you need sense, more than anything else.”
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, March 10, 1926