DIVORCE COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 9

DIVORCE COURT.

-. On Saturday morning Ms Ijoftopf Mr. Jtistico Hosking gavo deefefea m jii© divorce caso brought, by David MflKgan, tho petitioner, against Augiwta M. 31. llillfgan, respondent, 'ftie jsromicl of application was con struct h-o desorr tion. Mr. S. A. Atkinson appeared fof the petitioner, and Mr. .A. 6= Mew teatli for who, b.o\vt\ tit, did not defend tlic case.

His Honour chiefly reviewed petitioner's: evidence, and remarked that the correspondenco between tlto parties had completely borne outpetitioijcr's statsraents. Jlr. : 'Jlilligan had behaved in S lino way towards respondent, and hjvd dono credit to himself uiider tho circumstances, In the corrdsportdjiß(e-»-spondent had again and again avowed tliat she would riot return' to to husband, and it was perfectly clear that slio had persisted in that c-outso with tho deliberate intention of securing. for herself a new course of life. In its salient features . the. enso resembled in a remarkable degree the case Laurie v. Laurie, ami tho jasK-. ment given by Mr. Justice .Cooper, in that suit appeare<l to cover the present case. ; .

A decree' nisi was granted , , ia lie made absolute after thieo ironita Tlis Honour' added. that the question of futuro maintenance could b« broupftt before him when counsel for both patties had a proposition di-un up.