DIVORCE COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8752, 28 February 1907, Page 2

DIVORCE COURT.

Per Press Association. Wellington, February 26. After a retirement of about an hour and a half the jury in the divorce suit of William Pacoy v. Thomaaina Pacoy and E. W. .Dorset, found that the respondent had committed adultery with Dorset prior to her departure from Levin, but that Pacoy condoned it. They further found that there had been subsequent acts of adultery between respondent and corespondent, and that three separate allegations of adultery made against petitioner were false. They, therefore, found for petitioner and awarded him .£IOO damages against tho co-respondent. His Honor then granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months. Ilis Honor, in giving j udgment on an application to make the correspondent liable for the wife’s costs, said ho thought tho husband should pay those in accordance with usual practice. Ho had brought an extortionate claim for iUSOo, and had been awarded only <£loo, so it could not be said there wore special circumstances -to justify a departure from the general course followed. His Honor ni led that petitioner pay £4O as respondent’s costs, and that co-respondent pay J2XOO damages and £45 costs of petitioner, and,also repay to petitioner the £4O expenses allowed to respondent. Co-respondent also has to pay disbursements, costs of Court, witnesses, otc.