DIVORCE COURT.
Per Press Association. Wellington, June 20. Mr. Justice Butionund a jury of 12 were engaged to-day hearing a divorce suit of Johnson v. Johnson and Benge. Petitioner, J as. Johnson, a platelayer employed on the Government railways, sought dissolution of. his marriage with Sarah Jane Johnson, formerly Sarah Jnne Robinson, on the ground of misconduct with one Ed. Benge, farmer, residing at Upper Nutt. Petitioner claimed £5Ol damages from co-respondent. The charge of impropriety upon which the 'petitioner relied was alleged to have taken place on the 19th January last at Upper Hutt.
' The cross-examination of petitioner's witnesses was directed to showing thai petitioner had had monetary dealings with co-respondent in regard to purchases of stock, and had offered to overlook the wrong that had been done to him in the. matter of co-respondent's relationship with the respondent, on the payment to petitioner by co-respondent of £275. The case for the co-respon-dent, which is in every respect a denial of all the more serious and material allegations of petitioner and a denial that any incriminating admissions had been made in the matter, stands part heard.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 2
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187DIVORCE COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 2
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