UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1922, Page 5

UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE.

INTERVENTION OF A WIDOW. CO-RESPONDENT AT OWN REQUEST By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Wellington, Last Night. A divorce' case, Florence Lueilla Mills versus Adam John Milla, an electrical brush maker, of Wellington, wae heard in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Hockings. It presented a very unusual feature—the intervention of a woman as co-respondent on her own application .to appear as .such. Mrs. Agnes Watson Jackaoi had fceen accused of misconduct with jespoudent and took this course to vindicate her honor. Every right of the proceedings, including the right to challenge jurors; was accorded her. The intervention was made under section 24 of the Divorce Act. This is the only such case which has ever come before the New Zealand Supreme Court, and there has only -been one such case in England, namely, the case of Bell versus Bell, in which the alleged adultress was xnade the co-respondent on her own application. Mrs. Jackson, who is a wjdow, applied in chambers for permission to intervene. A lady detective named Thomas deposed to discovering the parties flagrante delicto. She gave evidence of presents of a silver cigarette case and military hair brushes from Mrs. Jackson to respondent and a seven yearn old letter from her to him beginning “my darling Adam” and ending “youifs always.” The main features of the case were changes of misconduct, which were denied by both parties, each denying that he or she had ever been to the place where the alleged incidents occurred, Mrs. Jackson set up a eircum--stgntial alibi, denying poF-seseion of s' costume described by the detective. The case is not finished.