SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26641, 11 December 1947, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

PETITIONS IN DIVORCE Mr Justice Kennedy was engaged in the Supreme Court yesterday in hearing petitions in divorce. Decrees Absolute Decrees absolute were granted in these cases:— Elva Alice Mary (Mr G. T. Baylee) v. Allan Kyle Marr (Mr J. C. Robertson); Lionelle Constance Hutchison (Mr F. W. Guest) v. John Hutchison (Mr E. J. Anderson); Helen Mayvlis Calder (Mr F. W. Guest) v. George Allan Calder; David Hugh Alexander Garvan (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Phyllis Agnes Garvan (Mr J. G. Warrington); Richard Robert Brown (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Ethel* Jane Brown (Mr J. G. Warrington); Joseph Arthur Clark (Mr J. M. Paterson) v. Thelma Elizabeth Clark; Harold Hopewell- McCormick (Mr C. J. L. White) v. Eva Rosetta McCormick (Mr F. W. Guest); Thomas Victor Nelson (Mr R. G. Calvert) v. Arlie Beatrice Nelson (Mr J. B. Stevenson); Eileen Elizabeth Topping (Mr C. J. L. White) v. Ronald Hector Topping (Mr F. W. Guest); Edna Evelyn Barton (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Zealand Wilbur Barton (Mr C. J. L. White); William Richard Clent (Mr G. T. Baylee) v. Edith Jean Grace Clent (Mr F. B. Adams); Herbert Selwyn Laney (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Lilian Marguerite Laney; Eric William McQueen (Mr J. G. Warrington) v. Elizabeth Sutherland McQueen. Conjugal Rights Petitions for the restitution of conjugal rights were granted in these cases:— James Pratt (Mr R. G. Calvert) v. Elza Mary Pratt; Claude Anthony Bickerstaff Thomson (Mr E. J. Anderson) v. Joan Coral Thomson; Evelyn Irene Hill (Mr J. B. Stevenson) v. Richard Edward Hill; Charles Colin Morris (Mr F. M. Hanan) v. Vera Morris; Reginald Flemington Riggs (Mr A. P. Alloo) v. Winifred Gwendoline Riggs. Decrees Nisi Decrees nisi were granted in these cases, on the grounds as stated:— William Edward Arbuckle (Mr E. J. Anderson) v. Irene Julia Arbuckle, grounds of adultery; William Alexander Pullar (Mr G. T. Baylee) v. Amy Rose Pullar, six months’ desertion, under emergency regulations; George Currie (Mr J. B. Stevenson) v. Robina Leckie Currie (Mr J. B. Thomson), failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights; Athol Ogilvie (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Jessamine Ethel Ogilvie, three years’ separation; Mary Madden (Mr R. B. P. Wilson) v. James Patrick Madden, three years’ separation; Patricia Constance Bell (Mr W. F. Forrester) v. John Percy Bell (Mr F. M. Hanan), three years’ separation; William Frederick Webb (Mr W. McAlevey) v. Isobel Patricia Webb, three years' separation; Millicent Annie Clent (Mr W. J. Meade) v. James Patrick Clent, three years’ separation; Kevin Holland, known as Turner (Mr J. B. Thomson) v. Ann Holland, known as Turner (Mr W. McAlevey) and William Kerr (Mr C. J. L. White), adultery; Hubert Edward Woodley (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Alice Violet Woodley (Mr W. M. Taylor), three years’ separation; Leslie Henry Beardsley (Mr C. J. L. White) v. Daphne Hilda Beardsley (Mr F. M. Hanan), three years’ separation; Hori Hawea Teiwinui Karetai (Mr J. G. Warrington) v. Frances Jean Karetai (Mr C. J. L. White) and John Robert George Anderson (Mr C. J. L. White), adultery; Edith Audrey Callander (Mr F. W. Guest) v. John William Stephen Callander, three years’ separation; Georgina Frances Howell (Mr E. J. Anderson) v. James Carrick Howell (Mr J. G. Warrington), three years’ separation; Muriel Maud Hodges (Mr F. W. Guest) v. Alexander Hodges, adultery.