DIVORCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 256, 19 March 1913, Page 8

DIVORCE CASE.

CONSTRUCTIVE DESERT! ON.

Per Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday.

. An important judgment hi divorce was given to-day by Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court. In the action the parties were Adolph Frederick William Lorie. (petitioner )and Sardh' Ellen Lorie (respondent). The ground of the petition (was. the .alleged desertion by the respondent' of the petitioner for a period lof over five 'veil vs. The parties were married in December, 1881, and'lived together for hiimv'yeais;-' there being several. of the.carriage;,, T.li.e desertion alleged , was : said tp. have c.ommcncqd ,in May, ll)0fi. and to have continued ,ever since.. jKo'r some,years prior tp' ibOtV tf)'e 'parties had not lived 'to- j and oil Vfanuai'y; 10, 1905, a.n 'agreement '6f' separation \vas entered into. 1 The actual' separation did not last lonjV but' erased" i'n 'May, 1903. and the J 'jpai-ties; lived'''together ijts -man' and' wife I uriffi' tile''-M:'pi tJjW vbifr/'- Later- she' 'had, I 'refused' to live' with 'him, although > he : had'repeatedly asked her to do so.'' ' The Jjittdpienf 'set forth 1 that 'the- (jues-; tifin to'be dWided : xvaS'Whether the prbv-' 'e'd- farts eonsti'tutfed a- ease' Of' constructive desertion sthe iref>p<vndenfc having! per- j sistehtly! frdm the year 190R -refused..to allo\v' ! h'er hlusband;t r 6'. cohabit'with lier, the." parties.-j. for-.,someH time since then Jivediiti tlft feaijiß .hO))se.j .CDncludin'j&iithe /deeisiion .statfid .rthpit the.correspondence i wnielv. -had <tw,e.ei* : the., jpai-t.i.e&;clearly ; established/ •thftt ">.• many, waj^efyigqd. : to'tyeat, petitioner as > iier husband or to consider him ths.lmad,, O.f o th« »gi pp^s^aiitially; entitled, .i.q'.i t[ vpice (l iij, tte'inanagementii of tne'''family I .''-"lit mr"'(His opinion, the petitioner had-established' -tt'i'case of constructive desertion, com'ift«ncinn; at the end'of 1800, and confcintil)' tire ipresent time, and-this desertion had been without any reasoniabla ca.use. 1 ' There/ must therefore .be a decree, nisi for of marriage, to be made absolute at the expiration of three months. ,