WIFE LEAVES HUSBAND
DAMAGES AWARDED IN DIVORCE CASE. A jury of twelve in the Supreme Court yesterday, after hearing counsels' addresses, awarded £750 damages is the action in which William Boothby (Mr. P. W. Jackson) asked for dissolution of his marriage with Annie Mercy Eliza Boothbv.(Mr. O’Regan) on the ground of her adultery.with Philip Neil Cameron (Mr. Perry). The case was begun a month ago. it was shown, in brief, that Mrs. Boothby, taking two of her three children, left her husband and went to work on the farm of Cameron, whose wife had previously left him. The iury found, after a retirement of an hour and a quarter, that adultery bad been committed both by the respondent and the co-respondent, and awarded the full damages claimed, where-, upon Mr. Justice Reed granted a decree nisi. (
Interim custody of two children was given the petitioner; the question of the custody of the other child and tho allocation of damages being held over. The co-respondent was ordered to pay the full amount of damages within 30 days.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 6
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176WIFE LEAVES HUSBAND Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 6
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