SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 45, 18 November 1918, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

DIVORCE I'EOCEEDINGS.. '. ■ His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) presided at', a sitting of. the ijupremo Court on .Saturday.'morning. The first case was n."-petition , for. <lisBoiution of marriage."by--John Noblett with Katheriue,-Yiites rioblett'. on. the ground of adultery. :'■■'■'■ ..::' '■ -Mrj.P; \X. Jackson appeared,for petitioner.. Respondent was: not represented, Petitioner saiii Uia«. shoTtly-after his "return from the front a'l'tor three;years' service his wife registered-, the birth'.of a son at-Dannevirke. He. was falsely, registered as the father of the child. Respondent would not divulge thVname of the real father. ' ' • . . His Honour granted a' decree nisi, to be absolute .in three months. George Gordon (Jit. P. -J. :O'Eegnn) sued for a divorce from.'Maria Gordon on the grounds of desertion and'.adultery., John Samuel'.Watson Was cited as co-respondent. ." • "• ■ • ■Petitidner'saidthat-his-wife left Christ-. church for Wellington- ■'Watson.follow-, ed lier t and they lived together in .Wel- ■ lington.- Respondent admitted . misconduct. They ■ had- gone to Sydney, and nothing further had been heard of .them. '■ His Honour granted a decree nisi, to be ninde absolute in-.three months. Annie IMxon iMunden yMr. L.'l'i'E. Edwards), sought dissolution of her marriage with F. Munden on the grounds of desertion. She had'kept'herself and twochildren, for several : years'. ' '■ • ,; A filed defence was abandoned.

•'His Honour'granted a decree liisi, to be made absolute in three months. : Eliza Amelia Perkins'(Xlr. C.: W. Tringhaiii) soughtdissolution of'her mar r ■liagc.'with Joseph Janies Perkins .on the grounds of desertion. '■ "". ' Petitioner stated that-her-husband had" left her over five years ago,.-and- since his departure she had supported herself. His Honour granted a decree nisi, to be inade absolute in three months.