SENT WIFE AWAY THEN WENT FOR DIVORCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 1

SENT WIFE AWAY THEN WENT FOR DIVORCE

GROUND OF When Herbert Nelson Taylor sent his wife to Sydney for the sake of her health and later issued a petition for divorce on the ground of desertion, matters took a new turn in the Taylor family.. Lillian Taylor (Mr. J. J. Sullivan) to-day sought a dissolution of her marriage with Herbert N. Taylor on the ground of desertion, the case being taken before Mr. Justice Stringer in the Supreme Co-urt this morning. Married in 1906, the parties lived at various places in the Dominion. There were no children. In 1920, after a serious illness, the petitioner was ordered by the doctor to go to Sydney. The respondent agreed to this course and saw that she got safely away. The petitioner’s health did not improve and she had to stay in Sydney, her husband sending her only £2 the whole time she was away. In 1923 he served her with a petition for divorce, and in order to get back to Auckland and defend the suit, the petitioner had to borrow the money from her brother. When she arrived here the respondent would not proceed with the action, and the petitioner applied to the court and received a maintenance order for 25s a week against the respondent, but the most she had ever received had been 15s. A decree nisi -with costs against the respondent was granted.