SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3181, 4 September 1917, Page 11

SUPREME COURT

IN DIVORCE UNDEFENDED CASES

His Honour Mr. Justico Uosking jester- | day heard a numbor of undefended petitions in divorce. Annie Alicia Mac-key asked for a dissolution of her marriage with Duncan Mackey, on tJic ground of desertion. , Petitioner Btated that-..fiho was married, at Fcilding in 1891. A separation order was raado in 1904, and under it the respondent was ordered to pay 255. per week as maintenance. Tho respondent failed to comply, with the order, and petitioner ha/l to support herself and her four, children by dressmaking. Mr. 1/. 0. Lcvvoy appeared In support of the petition. A dec.reo .nisi was granted. Alfred John Laoey, boilermaker. Potone, sought <a divorce from Mary .lane Lacey on tho gTound that sho committed adultery with one William Bcattie. Petitioner etato i that, ho was married on -September 12, 1903. and that in 1906 ho separated from his wife, consenting to pay maintenance. In 1916 he found that his wife was taking affiliation proceedings against tho 00-reepoDdont. Petitioner interviewed tho lattor, and afterwards decided to apply for a- divorce. His Honour decided to reservo his decision in order to consider •whether sufficient-evidence had been adduced. Mr. E. 0. Lcvvey appeared for the petitioner. Adultery was also alleged in the procewlings of Elizabeth Lane against Harold • Gordon Lane.- Mr. F. W. Johnston (Ohristr church), who appeared for tho petitioner, stated that the respondent had stayed at a Wellington hotel in 1916 with a,.-woman whom he had passed off as his wife. Helen Knight, sister of tho petitioner, gave evidence that on o.no occasion she caught the respondent wiih a lady on his knee. She saw him after the cgtf&uo which took place in tho Wellington hotol. and ho admitted to her that ho had. passed a stranger off as his wife. His Honour reserved his decision. Alioo Ericksen alleged that her husband, Edward Ericksen, had deserted her. Mr. Pro-gnell appeared in rapport the petition for a dissolution of the m&mage. Thero wero six ohildren. His Honour i-c----served his decision until tho reoords of the proceedings taken by tho petitioner in tho Magistrate's Court could bo produced. • Sena Petersen applied for a divoreo from Petor Poteraen', on the ground of adult-cry. Mr. Pra-gnell (counsel for petitioner) swd that/he -would havo to rely on a -written confession of misconduct. Judgment was reserved.' . „ • James Alexander Hume, for whom Air. Pragnell appeared, alleged that hia Cornelia Hume, had deserted J 11 ™. tioner said that- ho charged his. with unfaithfulness, and she deserted nun. His Honour said that ho desired to have more evidence beforo him as to tho cause of separation. Tho affair might n&ve been prearranged. Tho. ease was adjourned indefinitely. , ' , - . John Iteenan Henry (Mr. Evans) sougnt a divorce from Hilda Harriett Henry on the ground that she misconducted herself wit»i a man called Jackson. A decree nisi was granted. Tho respondent was ordered tt> pay ©ostß (£2O). . . . ' Tho Court granted a decreo nisi in the case of Henry J. Masson against Mary Isabel Masson and Alfred Imrie, a petition on grounds of adultery. Mr. Wat-son appeared for -petitioner. -U© Oourf, ordered, the co-respondent to pay costs (£20)..