Regarding the Monckton divorce case, the Post says :—lt: — It will be remembered that the petitioner— a mere child— sued for a dis solution of the marriage oa the grounds of adultery and cruelty. The facts disclosed were of a very disgusting character, the re spondent living with his youthful wife aud her sister at the same time. Under the old law the adultery, being of an incestuous nature, would have been sufficient to have entitled the petitioner to a decree, but the Deceased Wife's Sister Act deprives a woman of her remedy in such a case, and renders it necessary to establish cruelty as well as adultery. His Honor, in refusing the decree, expressed regret that he was compelled to do so, but said he was only there to administer the law, not to make it. He, however, hoped the case would be the means of having the law revised.
