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}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 Respondent \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid8399347 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 \par }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 Separation and Maintenance (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance (Cap. 31)}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 }{ \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 -}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 wife requiring independent matrimonial home away from husband's parents}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 -}{ \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 whether an unreasonable condition in offer to resume cohabitation. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7478027\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 The appellant sought a mainten ance order against the respondent, her husband, on the grounds of desertion and wilful neglect to maintain. The appellant, who had left the respondent because she was unhappy at his parent's home where they were living, had offered to return to him on}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 condition that he set up a matrimonial home away from his parents.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 The Magistrate held that this was an unreasonable condition and that the respondent had therefore no case to answer.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid6445267 \par }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid3344939 Held}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 .-(1) It would be quite absurd for it to be held by the courts that onc e a woman had agreed to live with her husband at his parent's home at the time of their marriage it was unreasonable of her at any later stage in their marr}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 ied life to desire to set up an }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 independent matrimonial home. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 (2) The Court below must decide whether or not, on the whole of the evidence, the appellant's stipulation was a reasonable or an unreasonable condition. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid3344939 Appeal allowed. }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid3344939 Case remitted to t}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid3344939 he lower Court. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 Case cited:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid11735147 Dunn v. D}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid11735147 un}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid11735147 n}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 (1949) P. at p. 103.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 A. Lateef for the appellant. \par A.I.N. Deoki for the respondent.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid6445267 \par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid3344939 HAMMETT, J}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 . [March 21, 1960]-}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 This is an appeal from the decision of the Magistrate's Court of the First Class sitting at Suva dated 15th October, 1959, whereby the complainant appellant's application for a Maintenance Or der under the Separation and Maintenance (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance against her husband on the grounds of desertion and wilful neglect to maintain her was dismissed.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8399347\charrsid6445267 The parties were mar ried on 10th March, 1956. After the marriage the parties cohabited first at the home of the husband's parents, then for a time at that of the wife's parents and finally at the husband's parents' home again. \par \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 The wife was not happy at the home of her husban d's parents owing to differences with his mother. She left and returned to live with her own parents. In 1958 she claimed maintenance from }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid4028771 h}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid12268151 er husband on the ground that}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 she left her husband because his mother way continuously criticizing her}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 and he would not set up a home for her away from that of his parents.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 Her claim was dismissed on 21st March, 1958, on the ground that the failure of her husband to intervene on her behalf with his mother could not be classified as persistent cruelty or any other ground justifying her leaving her husband.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 On 5th July, 1958, the appellant's solicitors wrote to her husband on her }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 b}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 ehalf offering to return to live with him if he would set up a home i}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 n}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 dependent of either his parents or her parents.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 To this letter the husband}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 made no reply. The wife having awaited in vain for some 6 weeks for a reply then issued the summons in this case claiming maintenance on the ground of her husband's desertion of her on 5th July, 1958, and his wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintena nce for her since that date.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 The case was h}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 eard by the Magistrate's Court a}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 t Nau}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 s}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 ori on 3rd September, 1959, when the Court ruled that the defendant had no case to answer. It is against that ruling that the wife now appeals.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 In the course of his ruling the learned trial Magistrate first held as fact that the wife appellant's offer to return to her husband was genuine and }{ \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid1655445 bona fide}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 . Later in the judgment however, he said that the offer to return could not be said to be g}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 enuine or sincere because it w}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 as conditional upon the husband setting up a matrimonial home away from his parents. It appeared that the learned trial Magistrate considered this to be an unreasonable condition for the wife to impose in view of his predecessor's ruling in the previous m aintenance case between the same parties. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 With respect to }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 the views of both the learned M}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 agistrates who have dealt with this case, I do not think that either of them have had sufficient evidence befo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid15756962 re them to enable them properly}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 to arrive at a finding of fact on the reasonableness of the wife's contention that her husband should set up a matrimonial home away from his parents. \par \par In this case it is clear that the parties to this marriage both being young at the date of their marriage, (they were aged 19 and 22 years respectively), contemplated that the practice, not uncommon among the Indian community in Fiji, of setting up a matrimonial home at the home of the husband's}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 p}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 a}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 rents would be followed.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 If, having agreed that this}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 would be the case, the wife }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 had, as soon as she was married, refused to go to her husband's parents' home but had at once insisted on him setting up a separate matrimonial home, I think it might have been open to the Court below to say that she was imposing an unreasonable condi}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid2716504 tion upon her husband}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 .}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6445267 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 In this case however the wife did co-operate wit}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 h the husband by setting up}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 a matrimonial home with him at his parents' home immediately af}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 ter the marriage but after some}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 years has found life there uncongenial. It would be quite absurd for it to be held by the courts that once a }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 wo}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 man had agreed to live}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 with her husband }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 at his parents'}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 home at the time of their marriage it was unreasonable o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 f}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 her}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 at any later stage in their married life to desire to set up, an independent matrimonial home.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6445267 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3701653 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 In my opinion, in these days, it is not unreasonable for any spouse to wish}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 to set up an independent matrimonial home away from their relatives,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 irrespective}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 of the fact}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 that their personal relations with t}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3344939 hose relatives may}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid14166286 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 have become uncongenial. Where a wife finds she is not happy living in the same house}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 as }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 her }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10499890 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 in-laws}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10499890 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 whether}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 the}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 fault}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 be}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 hers}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 or}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 theirs,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 and whether there be good reason}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 or not}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 for}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 her unhappiness }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 I}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 think}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 it}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 is}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 quite}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 reasonable for her t}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 o wish to set up an independent}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 matrimonial home away from them.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 \par But whilst this may be a reasonable wish on her part, it mig}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 ht }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 in certain circumstances be quite unre}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 asonable of her to insist upon }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 her wish being granted immediately and going to the lengths of leaving her husband unless }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 he satisfied this wish at once. }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 For example, the means of the parties and the expense involved in setting up an independent home would have to be considered. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 Once the Court below was satisfied that the wife's offer to return was }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid12145189 bona fide}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 , it had to consider whether the condition imposed that the husband should set up an independent matrimonial home was a reasonable condition or not. As I have already said, I do not think the wife's wish to live apart from her in-laws was, }{ \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid12145189 per se}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 , unreasonable. In }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 Dunn v. Dunn}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 (1949) P. at page 103 Denning L.J. dealt with this question and said:- \par \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid3701653 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid461125 "I want to say a wo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid3701653 rd also on the proposition that a husband has the right to say where the home should be, for, indeed, it is the same fallacy in another form. If the proposition were a proposition of law it would put a legal burden on the wife to }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 justify her refusal; but it is not a proposition of law and I am sure Henn Collins J. in }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid5837901 Mansey v. Mansey}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\super\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6619312 (2)}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 did not intend it as such. It is simply a proposition of ordinary good sense arising from the fact that the husband is usually the wage earner and has to live near his work . It is not a proposition which applies to all cases. The decision where the home should be is}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 a decision which affects both }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 the parties and their children. }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 It is their duty to decide it by agreement, by give and take, and not by the}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 imposition of the will}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 of one over that of the other. }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 Each is entitled to an equal voice in the ordering of the affairs which are their common concern. Neither has a casting vote, though to be sure they should try so to arrange their affairs that they spend their time together as a family and not apart. If such an arrangement is frustrated by the unreasonableness of one or the other and this leads to a separation between them, then the party who has produced the separation by reason}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 of his or her unreasonable behaviour is guilty of desertion.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 The situations which may arise are so various that I think it unwise to attempt}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 any more precise test than that of unreasonableness.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 Views as to unreasonableness may vary, and the decision is essentially one for the trial judge with which this Court should not interfere, unless the conclusion}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 is one which could not reasonably be drawn.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 If a wife refuses to join her husband at a place where he is ready to receive her, that is, of course a factor of great weight, but it is not ne}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 cessarily decisive.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 In this case the judge has held that the wife's refusal was not unreasonable". \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3701653 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 \par The ruling of the trial Court tha}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5968824 t the respondent had no case to}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 answer because his wife a}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653 c}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 companied her }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid13978590 bona fide}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3701653\charrsid6445267 offer to return with a condition that they set up a matr imonial home away from his parents, was based on the view that this was an unreasonable condition for the wife to make. In my opinion the learned trial Magistrate erred in so ruling, since this was not an unreasonable wish on the part of the wife. It is a reasonable request that the husband should have been willing to grant unless he could show cogent reasons for refusing to grant it. \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid8399347 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 \par I do not, however, think the learned trial Magistrate was in a position properly to adjudicate upon the reasonableness of the wife's condition of residence in this case, without hearing both the parties. \par \par For these reasons I allow this appeal and set aside the ruling of the trial Court that the respondent husband has no case to answer. I direct that the case be returned to the Court below and that the respondent be called upon}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 to make his defence.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6445267 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 After hearing the defe nce the Court below must then decide whether or not, on the whole of the evidence, the appellant's condition that the parties set up an independent matrimonial home away from the parents of both parties was in the circumstances of this case a reasonable o r an unreasonable condition bearing in mind the considerations refer}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 red to in }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312\charrsid6619312 Dunn v. Dunn}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6619312 which I }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5130329\charrsid6445267 have cited in this judgment. \par }}