EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE SUIT.
An extraordinary divorce suit, Splatt v. Splatt has been before the Sydney courts. The parties are Melbourne people, and they were married at Christ Church, South Yarra, in February 1881. The hearing of the case took place recently, and the other day Mr Justice Windeyer gave judgment. In doing so he recapitulated the evidence, which disclosed extraordinary and continuous cruelty on the part of the respondent. On one occasion soon after the honeymo m he beat bis wife’s head against the wall, and on another he kept her out of doors in the rain for several hours, which brought on an illness. He also kept her without food sometimes all day, and when a child was born he treated it with gross cruelty for the purpose of giving his wife pain. Mr Justice Windeyer granted a decree nisi for divorce, remar king at the same time that the cruelty from which the petitioner had suffered would not have entitled her to a release “ from her misery, and the brutal tyranny of the husband to whom she was legally married, unless she had been fortunate enough to succeed in detecting him in adultery.” This points to a defect in the divorce law, which will probably be taken notice of when the Divorce Extension Bill, which has been sent from the Council to the Assembly, comes up for discussion.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3100, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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