SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3169, 21 August 1917, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

UNDEFENDED DIVORCE CASES ]u (lie Supremo Court yesterday. Ilia Xloiipur Mr. Juetico Hosking hoard u number of undefonded petitions in divorce. Cecilia, Jlnry Stewart said that oil May 23, 1895, at Marton,. slio married Henry George Stowart, .with whom she lived tilt ahotit eight ycai-B ago. They separated hy mutual agreement, and the husband promised to ray £1 per week towards the eupport. of petitioner and her two children. No payments had been forthcomins. Jlie Honour granted a. decrco niisi, to be made absolute in thrco months. Ethel Elizabeth Turnbull, married at Dunedin in 1905 to John Turnbull, sought a, divorce from Mm on the ground that ho deserted and failed to maintain her. Petitioner said.tbat shortly after the marriage respondent was drunken and abusive, and that flho parted from him in January, 1906, oD the understanding that ho was to maintail) her. Sho had not heard from'him William Gcorgo Clark, manufacturing confectioner, of Varanaki Street, sought iv divorce from Annie Olark on the ground that she committed adultery with one Norman Clout, a butcher. Petitioner said that his wife, whom he married in England in 1909, met Olont in Wellington, and after Fomn tiino went out, for motor rides with him nt night. When petitioner questioned licr about the matter, sho admitted that she had misconducted herßelf with Clout. She refusod to leave the latter, and in reply to petitionor'6 Htatcment that he would get a divorce she remarked that that would he the best thing. The Court granted a decree nisi, and ordered costs £25 and disbursements to be paid by the co-respondent. Evolina Ethel Thompson alleged that her husband. Watson Walker Thompson, committed adultery wilh a woman residing at Ohristchnrch. Petitioner said that the woman concerned stayed with her and her husband in Blenheim for some time. Both parties admitted to petitioner their miseonduot. Since petitioner and respondent parted, respondent paid 255. towards the support of petitioner and the one child of the marriage. His Uonour made a decrco nisi.