A UNIQUE CASE.
« THE JOBSON DIVORCE SUIT. DECREE SET ASIDE. [P&ESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. Judgment was given by Mr Justice Cooper to-day on the motion of the Solicitor - General to discharge a ! decree nisi granted on the 19th of j March, 1910, at Gisborne in the divorce case Jobson v. Jobson, and to dismiss the petition to have the decree made absolute. It appears that since the granting of the decree nisi the parties— William Jobson, petitioner, and Edith Lilian Jobson, respondent— have lived together as man and wife at Wanganui and Wellington. The grounds of the Solicitor-General's motion were that the petitioner had condoned the respondent's adultery, } and that the Court had not had J material facts before it at the time, j The Court rescinded the decree j nisi, and as a matter of course dismissed the petition for a decree abso- < lute, which was desired by both parties. Mr Justice Cooper said that it; was the first case in New Zealand ; ;in which the Attorney-General or j j Solicitor-General had intervened in a ! i divorce suit. . j I [This case isi referred to in an j 1 article on page 6 of this issue.]
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 255, 4 November 1910, Page 4
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198A UNIQUE CASE. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 255, 4 November 1910, Page 4
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