DIVORCE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 2

DIVORCE COURT.

By Telegraph,—Press Association. Wellington, last Night. ■Wife assertion at Hobart was 'the ground of a divorce obtained this morning by Jessie Foreman against William i'iiomas Foreman, portrait-painter Th» case was partially heard by Mr. Justice Cooper yesterday, and adjourned until to-day for further uvidenee. His Honor held that the fact of desertion stood upon Mrs. Foreman's evidence, that she had not been supported by lier husband, nor lived with him for live years. This was supported by independent testimony, a lfd under tfli« circumstances hi s Honor could accent petitioner's evidence as to the maintenance order made by the Magistrate ].fn nS \ n C , n ' 3 l ,omll ;» t «i 1H October, 1!»0.), at Hobart. This established that "'' 1 »»* F'°r to the date in quca . to,, respondent had deserted petition»:r. A decree nisi, to be made absolute at the expiration of three months was »1 and costs on Uie lowest' s «oV awa-lcd against the respondent liivercargiH, Last Night. In divorce, Morrison v. Morri.on and lonlHM husbands petition, „," f oiantui, to be made absolute in thre> "lOTths and £SO damages a«a i«t eo I respondent, tJhe husband to la" D eut tody of three children.