LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 9

LAW REPORTS.

IN DIVORCE. (Before His Honour Mr. Justice Sim.) Tho Supremo Court was engaged all day yesterday in hearing a petition by Albert Edwin Jones for divorco from has wifo, ■ Jane Jones. Edmund Crow was joined as co-resflondent. Jones is an electrician in tho employment of Tolley and Son, and Crow is a hotel-keeper at Cheltenham, near Feilding. The ground of tho petition was misconduct. Jones claimed from Crow £700 by way of damages. The case was heard beforo Mr. Justice Sim and a jury of twelve. Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for the petitioner, and Mr, W, Perry for Mrs. Jones and Crow.

Mr. Wilford stated that the parties were married on May S, 1903. ITie corespondent (Crow) was "the kind of man who appealed to women." Ho was goodlooking and had plenty of money. Jones had no claim to wealth; ho was merely a£3 or .£1 per week man. The fact that Jones was not wealthy was one of tho causes of Mrs. Jones's discontent. She had said: "What is the good of £3 a week to me? I want eomeono to whom <£10 a week is nothing." Crow was not the first man to cause trouble between Jones and Mrs. Jones. Another man had enticed her out for taxi rides and to drinking, and she began to 6ee that the "gay life" was moro pleasant than that which she looked upon as tho "monotony of married life.'

Tho oaso revolved on this line all day, and hearing was eventually adjourned till this morning. In evidence the respondent (Mrs. Jones) and the co-respondent (Crow) denied the allegations of misconduct.