UNIQUE DIVORCE CASE
THE QUESTION OF CONNIVANCE. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Christclmvch, Tuesday. In the divorce ease Notmann v, Notmami and Brown, evidence was taken this morning on the question of the husband's connivance at the wife's adultery, tile point being raised by the wife in defending the action. Hall, a commercial traveller, said that petitioner had offered him £2OO or £3OO for incriminating evidence against nis wife. Counsel for petitioner contended that the evidence did not disclose actual connivance either under the English or New Zealand law. The judge said there was nothing in the evidence inconsistent with petitioner's belief in his wife's misconduct or his anxiety to obtain evidence. He remembered no other case in which IfJSere had been such definite intercourse between the petitioner and co-respondent, both before and after the actual adultery. The case in that respect was unique, and was important in view of the different view taken in English law. He would take time to consider.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 22 February 1911, Page 5
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162UNIQUE DIVORCE CASE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 22 February 1911, Page 5
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