DIVORCE COURT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 186, 3 May 1920, Page 6

DIVORCE COURT

SENDERS T. SAUNDERS. The Supreme. Court was eneaecd on Saturday in hearimr the divorce ca,Be of John Sydney Saunders v. Edith' Mary Wishart Bawndera and Harry Hirt. .His Honour Mr. Justlco Herdman. and a jury of which Mr. E. R. Dymock was foreman, heard the case. Mr.' M. Myers appeared for the ■petitioner, Mr. P. W. Jackson for the reBDondent. and Mr. A. E, Sievwrisht for the co-respondent. The parties were married on December 18. 1916, at the Boulcott Street Catholic Church, and lived together at Lower Hutt. The. petitioner allccod; that on December 31, 1919. and on January 2 and January 4, 1920. the respondent misconducted herself with Harry Hirt. a returned soldier. . There was no claim' for do mages. • After ovideico it support of the petltion had been heard, the respondent entered the witneßs-box and denied the charges made against her. - . The corespondent, who said lie had a wife In France, stated on oath that he had 'niver misconducted himself with the respondent. The .jury i-eturned at 9.30 p.m. The foreman announced that thero was no possibility of a unanimous verdict,' but three-fourths of the jurymen were agreed that mißconduct had taken placb. '■ Thiß verdict was accepted. A decree nisi, to bo mowd absolute in three months,. was gtanted. with costß acamßt th» co-respondent.