SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

UNDEFENDED DIVORCE PETITIONS A decree nisi, on the grounds stated, was granted the petitioner in each of the following undefended petitions for divorce heard before Mr Justice McGregor in the Supreme Court yester-aSeparation.-—Francis Haydn Gibson (Mr K. L. Heney) v. Myrtle Edith Jessie Gibson; Joseph Wesley (Mr K. L. Heney) v. Mary Wesley; Eileen Weston Edie (Mr W. F. Brown) v. Lachlan Deryck Mac Lean Edie (Mr P. H. T. Alpers); Ruby Isobel Marie Regan (Mr K. A. Gough) v. Lionel William Regan; Almah Elsie Dunn (Mr K. A. Gough) v. Wesney James Dunn; Cecil Slade (Mr D. W. Russell) v. Margery Marion Slade (Mr J. G. Leggat); Mona Ellen Smith (Mr D. W. Russell) v. Ronald Smith; Herbert Stanley Parris (Mr A. N. Mackay) v. Daphne May Parris; Harold Charles Clapham (Mr B. McClelland) v. Eleanor Dora Clapham; Walter William Hancox (Mr J. G. Leggat) v. Pa-

tricia Joan Hancox; Ina May McMaster (Mr K. A. Gough) v. Hugh McMaster; Jessie Marion Bennett (Mr A. K. Archer) v. Arthur Gordon Bennett; Sheila Annie Catherine Martin (Mr P. H. T. Alpers) v. Lloyd James Martin.

Insanity.—William Thomas Crawley Meadows (Mr R. E. Wylie) v. Carrie Meadows (Mr P. T. Mahon). Desertion. —Daisy Louisa Steel (Mr W. F. Tracy) v. Norman Leslie Steel; Phyllis Annie May Shearman (Mr C. G. Penlington) v. Charles William Pyne Shearman. Adultery.—John St. Clair Vincent (Mr E. M. Hay) v. Grace Shirley Vincent and George Holtz otherwise known as George Vernon, named as co-respondent; Frederick Albert Moir (Mr E. M. Hay) v. Eris Barbara Moir and Desmond Louis Illing, named as co-respondent; Frank James Whitehead (Dr. A. L. Haslam) v. Beryl Doreen Whitehead and Engel Tuyn, named as co-respondent.

DECISION RESERVED ON RESTITUTION SUIT After hearing further evidence yesterday and submissions by counsel, Mr Justice McGregor reserved his decision in the Supeme Court on the petition by Leo Francis Jenkins, a grocer, against his wife, Margaret Ellen Jenkins, for restitution of conjugal rights. Mrs Jenkins opposed the petition and asked the Court to make a decree of judicial separation in her favour. His Honcut he hoped to be able to give an oral judgment this morning. Mr J. G. Leggat appeared for Jenkins, and Mr B. J. Drake for Mrs Jenkins.