IN DIVORCE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 5

IN DIVORCE

UNDEFENDED CASES. Undefended divorce cases were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday by Mr. JusHco Heed. Frank Vernon Townsend (Mr. Jackson) asked for dissolution of hie marriage with Ida Townsend, on tho grounds of desertion nnd adultery. Petitioner eaid that his wife had only lived with him fur three ■‘weeks after the marriage. Ho had seen her in company with u man named Thomas Mason, whom he cited as Evidence in support of the petitioner’s case was given, by a private inquiry agent, who said that the, respondent, had been living with Mason a, his wife: also that Mason’s wife had commenced proceedings against him. A decree nisi was granted. Claude Hobart Pulsford (Mr. O’Leary) alleged adultery against his wife, Clara Lydia Pulsford, and asked for a divorce on that ground. He said that he hud left her on account of her misconduct, but paid her .£‘3 n week ns maintenance, lie had seen her with another man in a bedroom, and had watched a man leave her house at 2 o'clock in the morning. "I chased tho man,” said the petitioner, "and he ran down the road shouting 'Police! Murder!’ He told me, when I caught him, that he did not know that the woman was my wife.” An inquiry agent gave evidence. after which de. decree nisi was granted. The corespondent, .a steward named Harold Jolliife, was ordered to pay costs on tho lowest scale.