DIVORCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 3

DIVORCE

WIFE’S ALLEGED DESERTION. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Friday, Adolph Frederick William Lorie sued for a divorce from his wife, Sarah Ellen Lorie, oh the grounds of desertion. Mr Justice Cooper was on the Bench. Mr C. P. Skerrett, and with him Mr Bagneil, junr., represented the petitioner, and Mr E. Mahony appeared for respondent, who was not present at the proceedings. Mr Mahony intimated that the action would bj undefended. Mr Skerrett, in outlining the married career of the parties, said that they were wedded in Wellington in December 1881, and at various periods had lived at Wanganui, Auckland, Nelson, and Dunedin. In May, 1906, the respondent wilfully deserted petitioner without just cause for five years, and from that time had continued to desert him. Mr Skerrett then quoted voluminous correspondence that had passed between the two, which disclosed the remarkable incompatibility of temperaments that existed. The petitioner’s story was on similar lines to that stated by Mr Skerrett. The first real trouble, be said, had come when ho engaged a governess to look after the children in Dunedin. In January, 1905, he obtained a deed of separation which provided that they should live in the same house, hut not ao man and wife. His Honor reserved his decision to enable him to peruse the papers and correspondence dealing with, the case. '