SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

V CASES IN DIVORCE. ' miIrEEOUS UNDEFENDED PETITIONS. • His-Honour Mr. Jnstioo Chapman hoard a i largo-numWr of divorce cases yesterday. Frederick Samuel Hayes (who was reprej, . '■■■jeftfedj.bjr, Mr. Wilford) applied for a divorce ,f , from. Jine Haye?, on the ground that his wife ./ i hail left! him with one Loslio Wikonia 1902.. /'. The j.partios .were.married 'on .October 6, 1883,. and lived at Grcytown. . A" deoree nisi ' wiis \r granted,: to. be ■ made' absolute after three J Kontlis.' ' ■ ' Mary, Hollands Brace sou'ght .a dissolution of ■ • her ,marriage with Alfred James 'Brace' 1. (steward);■; who,: sho. stated, ..had .deserted ' her ill January, 190-t. A' dccree, giving- petitioner :tno/,custody of.'her two children,; was granted, y Mr. JDunn appeared for petitioner. ' * V ' Sarah .'.Knight (for whom' Mr" Wilford ap ; -Beared).sued for.divorco from Samuel Knight, . jorm..labourer, on the' ground .of desertion. • Thoipetition was granted.,, "William Hounslow, printer, of . Masterton, . made application for a divorce, on tho ground. • - that-his.iivife was ,now. living with one Alfred sWarren... Petitioner stated that he married the . respondent oa Juno 32, 1895, at: Cjrey,town , ' Northh'Thero wero three ■ childron ot tho ; ' marriage.' In" 1903, while living at, Pahiatua, , ■ ' the.desertion had taken place. A decree!nisi j . was7'grantod,' with costs against tho co-respon-dent,'and petitioner was given tho oustody of - tho ..three children. Mr. Herdman appeared for petitioner. f . Antno Jane Hodgson applied for-the dissolutitmof her marriage with.JSdmund Wm..HodgV'.-'. ' goH;: stwoman, on the ground of-thelatterfsmis-' conduct.- It was alleged that ho had left her . . eightoeii. ,s .months ago. : Mr.. Weston appeared : for .'petitioner. -His Honour granted the-decreo as'sought. .-■ r , Henry Walter Blake ashed for a. divorce ■ from: his wife,'. Eve Marian Blake,, on 'the ; " . ground 'that had deserted him. arid ; fiifdvgonft' to live with a.man named Rollinson,. .■ a stock-dealer, of Palniorston North. Mr. W L ebb; appeared for petitioner. , His Honour. • made an- order accordingly. . ' . I ''Martha Jane Withers (who was represented' ' by'Mti'i-Wilforfl) made application .for a divorce , from'.Henry John Withers... Tho "parties -were ' married in 1902, and had'lived at'EkotahtiDa;Taihape,- the Hutt, and Wellington. ■ A decree nisi".was granted, ..with..afi 1 order: giving .''./ petitioner, tho custody -of ! tho '-. children. J<)hn,Berry, driver, applied for: dissolution . ,of;:id'arriage on. tho ground .of :his, wife's mis- . " conduct. :: Mr.-. Dunn. appeared for'.the , petitiSnei-,' stated that tho marriage took placo • . - . oh;-' May/20, .1907,,-and ,that : petitioner and re-; 'epondent lived together for .two months only. .ESspbiidoht was uotf residing witlrtho 1 co'-re- !. spofident..(Ferguson) .in ,a: house in Adelaide ■ ■ . ■ Road;.' .A ■ decree nisi was granted, but' his Honour".deferred 'consideration of the applicati6n :to -transfer, tho custody of the two-year- - old child to tho petitioner. • ' 1 . A'.petition for divorce was made by Cathe- . rine'Elwyn Miller (fCrmerly:Green), who-was . represented, by Mr.. I'indlay. Mr. Herdman : .appeared for the respondent..: Petitioner stated ; that ;her.:. marriage.' with , the respondent'(who .was.'a : clerk) took place at Launceston on' Juno /-■. 13,;";:19i)2,> . and they, lived- together, .in' LauncesV"...".; and'Hobart. . A decree, nisi ) . -warranted,'and petitioner was given the cus'- ' todyof.,the child. > .. ■ .'.;lh- siliilg for. a ; divorce, Gerald Adam- Paul, . ' auctioneer, ofj Blenheim, called evidence as ; to'; the'-'conduct' of his wife ih'Wellington. .Peti- ;' . represented by. ~Mr.'.-"Biair. .' '-Ho ' :i. 6tated vthat the marriage with his wife, Annie . Paul.vtbok prdco -in' September; 1907. There • Here n.o' : children. : R-esfondent : came' to Wellington:;'ahtl'ser.ved'as a'barraaid under.hermaiden ; r natiie of-fflarpir. Evidence was given .by Jaiiies Stanlcjr,..Hazelwood.,and'.Samuel Treo (private defecti-re).. AVdecreo'. was In [the divorce 1 suit, ': Gertrude Unwin v. ; . TJhwin, Mr.. Wilford; for,.the petii tioner,..moved;for a'decree absolute,"and api pliedvfor, ,thß ; oOstddy,iof"'tho'children. v-Tho ,, Application 3 'was ..granted,.; •;/ ' .. . j . Thonias Edward Hampton -Cassidy, ' night.' watchman at the Pnblio 'Trust: Office,applied for a' divorce,' and' Mr.' WilfoVd ' appeared 'on' ; -hie.,-,behalf.-; .stated, -that 'his - mat? ' riago with, Mary LaVinia; GaS9idy '(nee 'Smith) took'plrfce on Apri 1- ; 13,'"•1892/' "Tlfero, lfaV'tme , , ■ child. - Respondent went away with one Arthur -. Flint,' blacksmith. The divorce was, granted. i ■ .Two. cases," one- of-which:*was^defended, : were' heard' Sin camera.