A Peculiar Case.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington. August 19. A peculiar application is being heard in the Snpreme Court. Robert Sutherland, the petitioner, is a sheep farmer residing at Inland Patea. He married in the Wairarapa district many years ago but conjugal relations were not happy, and after 2^ years tbe parties decided to separate, the wife, Amelia, coming to Wellington and the husband going to Wanganui. Subsequently the wife heard that Sutherland was dead and she married a man named Johnson, by whom there was issue of four. Johnson died, and the wife hearing that Sutherland was still alive proceeded, in bis absence, for a maintenance order which was granted, and he now seeks that it be quashed on the ground that the wife committed adultery. The case is proceeding.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 44, 20 August 1896, Page 2
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131A Peculiar Case. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 44, 20 August 1896, Page 2
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