MOTION TO QUASH DIVORCE DECREE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 3

MOTION TO QUASH DIVORCE DECREE

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m Were the Parties Separated For Full Period? HUSBAND'S EVIDENCE

(By Telegraph—

AUCKLAND, Last Night. The adjourned action in which the Solicitor-Ueneral intervened to oppose a decree nisi being inade absolute was resumed beforo Mr. Justico Callan in the Supreine Court. Petitioner, Geoffrey Squiro Eadley, a fruit and produce merehaut, of Christchurch, obtained a decreo- nisi against his wife, Dorothy \Yhaiey Hadley, from Mr. Justice Fair on November last, on the ground that a separation agreement had been enterI ed into between the parties on August 2(5, 1932, and had been in full force and eflieet ever since. On behalf of the Crown, Mr. V. E. Meredith intervened, alleging that the decree nisi was obtained contrary to the natural justice of the case, owiug to material facts being concealed from the Court. The Crown alleged on the evidence of diaries kept by respondent that the parties had been together on 175 occasions after the separation and that the separation had been definifbly terminated in. June, 1934, when the wife complied with her husband's re--quest to return and live with him. The exainination of Mrs. Kadiey, which occupied scvcral days early last June, was completed before the case was theu . : adjourned. 1-tewa Kadiey, aged • 11J years, a daughter of the parties, gave evidence about the timo when sho was living with her mother iu Christchurch. !5he said her father came for her mother in his car in the evenings fairly often and took her out. Dr. Margaret Knight said she had attendeci Mrs. Kadiey when she had a bruiso on the temple and on one side of her face there was a large bruise and her eyo was black. Witness found her at Papatoetoe with no furniture in the house and one dcughter with her. fche had a severe chill through having slept on tbe floor. She was a very devoted mother, always putting the happiness and comfort of her. children berore her own. Petitioner said he was married in Juiy, 1913, at the age of 19, when Mrs. Kadiey was 27. Things were quite all right for .tbe flrst three montbs, but after tbat life became progressively more unpleasant, especially wben be cndeavoured to assert liimself. Mrs. Kadiey had a bad temper and always wanted her own way. He found it impossible to contiuue to live with her ; and left her in 1927. He denied thero : was any ground for his wife's jealousy as expressed in her evidence. She had j always tried to rnake a teetotaller of : him, . but without success. Witness ; gavo his account of his voyage home with his wife in 1930, contradicting many allegations she had made. He said he sent his children to Christ- j ehurcli in 1930, because she had threat- J ened to kill them. He described the I circumstances of his getting a new j home at Papatoetoe with a view to j making a frcsh start. His wife wouid not go to Papatoetoe, and ,tbcy had been separated evcr sinee. Tho hearing adjourned.