Calverly against Plummer
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1793 |
| Date | 01 January 1793 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
English Reports Citation: 83 E.R. 432
COURT OF KING'S BENCH
432 MICH. 23 CAE. II. IN B. R. a LEV. 17. calveri.y against plummee. Husband not chargeable for provision for his wife taken without his consent, Assumpsit against the defendant for diet and lodging for his wife; and upon non assumpsit at a trial before Hale, in Middlesex, the case was : The husband left his wife in the country, and came and lived in London twenty years, and here married another, for which he was indicted, and his wife came to London to prosecute; upon that he caused her to be arrested, and she was committed to the plaintiff the gaoler; who now sued the husband for her diet and lodging during the time she was in prison. Hale Chief Justice, The husband is not chargeable without some evidence of his assent; as that he visited his wife in prison, or by any other act approved of this provision by the gaoler. But here the...
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