DIVORCE ACTION NULLIFIED
^ AUCKLAND, July 7. Petitioner stayed in his wife's flal as an experimental resumption of eo habitation which cannot be done without destroying a separation agreement, " said Mr. Justiee Callan in the Supreme C'onrt, in dismissing a petition by Edward Ronald Buhck for a divorce from Constanee Josephine Buhck on the grounds of separation. The defenee was that as the couple lived in the sarae flat for a period upde.r eireqmstaqe^fj . w]yeh, eoqk}f rapai^ restoration of consortium vitae, the separation agreement could no longer be held to be in full foree. With this his Honour agreed. The intention of the parties. was legally relevant, his Honour said, and this solved the ambiguity of the ease as the husband did not stay at the flat as a mere guest but while he was making up his mind whether or not there should be a reconciliation. "This case is important and raises a novel question, " his Honour stated in giving his deeision.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1947, Page 7
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