DIVORCE COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 217, 7 June 1919, Page 10

DIVORCE COURT

DECKED NISI GRANTED,

In the Divorce Court yesterday afternoon the Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) heard the undefended divorce suit of Edlin v. Edlin and another.' • ■

Mr. P. AV. Jackson appeared for tho petitioner, Thomas Edlin, who sought 'it dissolution of his marriage t with Margaret Hannah Edlin on the ground of misconduct with Samuel Crossley, boardinghouso keeper. The parties were married at the Registry Office, Wellington, on March 8, 1911, and there were two children of the marriage. The parties lived at various places, and uetitionev lived recently at. Rona Bay. The petitioner went to tho front on June 13, 1917, and returned on February 21, 1919. During his.absence proper provision was mado for. tho .maintenance of his wife and children. Ho heard in France that his wife was not conducting herself properly, . and on liis return he: saw her, and she said that sho went to work for a man named Crossley, a boardinghouse keeper, who said the work was too hard for her, and .it would be.' hotter for hoi' to .live with him. .

Constable Hedgeman said that he had occasion to go to tho -boardinghouso of Samuel Crossley, in Customhouse Quay, •where ho saw Mrs. Edlin, who appeared to be on the premises for immoral purposes. Crossley wan subsequently convicted of keeping a brothel."

His Honour granted a, decree nisi, to be. made absolute in threo months, witii costs against the co-respondent.-