MATRIMONIOL TANGLE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 4

MATRIMONIOL TANGLE

V HUSBAND MARRIED BUT WIFE DIVORCED ■.BRISBANE, May 28.—A railway glia id from Cbarlesville, who is seok- . nig a divorce from his wile, tofu! Mr. ''Justice Pliiip in the Supreme Court to-day that, when lie started the proceedings lie found "that his wife had divoiced him in New South Wales lour years ago without his knowledge, and had married again. •Counsel told the court that a New S-ij'ith Wales di voice was not effective in*•'Queensland, because the husband had never been domiciled in New South Wales, and the court.there had no • jurisdiction. Although the wile was not divorced in Queensland,. she was.in New. South Wales, and her second'marriage there - was nojf bigamous, but tlie Queensland husbafnef would be guilt \ of bignjpy if he ‘married again. * The railway guard. Joseph Martin Kane, had sought a divorce Horn "Violet Julia ’ Charlotte Kane, of Dangar street, Raudwkk. Sydney, cn the ground of'Ti'df "decertiOn. .They were married in Brisbane oil 1913, and lived together at ha-ne until April 1, 1920. hi is liomutf’ who reserved hi.s decision. .said, that the facts were a •Strange 1 commentary on the way ■divorces could.- bo got, at any rate, in a,j Siarthy.M’Alos. There eculd have si|if iiby the New South 2s police. lmtst have ■swoni "falsely in'; the‘New Smith Wales. court that the husband could not- be traced.