SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2792, 9 June 1916, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

A DIVORCE CASE

In the Supreme Court yesterday Mr. Justice Hosking heard the petition of Mary Ann Clark for the dissolution cl her marriage with Fitzgerald Clark, cn the ground of misconduct. The peli»°nor, who was represented by Mr. 11. I'. O'Leary, was of negro extraction, the respondent being a coloured man. 'l'he parties were married in 1003, and for ten years lived together unhappily. Petitioner nnally parted from her liusband in 1913. Clark was $50 in arrears with his wife's maintenance payments. The vocations of the parties, waitress and cook respectively, took them to Auckland, and it was there she saw- her husband in-com-pany with a woman named M'Callum. In .February of this year Clark was adjudged the father of an illegitimate child, and ordered by the Court to contribute to its maintenance. Then a divorce was agreed to by the parties, the respondent admitting that the petitioner had a clear case against him, and Clark went so tar as to agree to pay the costs. Carroll O'Donnell, law clerk, narraW the conversation he had with respondent, in which conclusive admissions had been made as to his relations with M*Callmn. His Honour granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months, with costs, ,£lO, to be paid by petitioner. In the case of Larsen v. Larsen, Mr. P. J. O'Regan was granted the issue of a duplicate citation and., tho case was set down for hearing on Monday next.