A PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. Press Association. WELLINGTON, last night. Air. Justice Button and a jury of twelve was engaged to-day liouring the divorce suit'-'of Johnson v. Johnson and Benge. ,* ho petitioner, James Johnson, platelayer*, employed on the Government railways, sought a dissolution ot bis marriage with Sarah Jane Johnson, formerly. Sarah Jane Robinson, on the ground of misconduct with one Edward Benge, a farmer, residing at Upper Hutt.. Petitioner claimed 11501 damages from co-respondent. The charge of impropriety upon which the petitioner relied was alleged to have taken place on tho UJtli January last at Upper Hutt. The cross-examination of petitioner s witnesses was directed to showing iat petitioner had had monetary dealings with co-respondent in regard to purchase.of stock and had offered to overlook the wrong that had been done to him m the matter of the corespondent’s relationship with the respondent, on payment to netitionor by co-respondent, of .£273. . 4 lie caso for the co-respondent was in every respect a denial of all the more serious and material allegations of petitioner and a denial that anv incriminatory admissions had been made in tho matter. The.case stands part hoard.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2112, 21 June 1907, Page 3
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192A PETITION FOR DIVORCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2112, 21 June 1907, Page 3
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