SUPREME COURT ENDS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1926, Page 14

SUPREME COURT ENDS

BUSINESS CONCLUDED YESTERDAY DIVORCE FROM DESERTING WIFE. The attention of His Honour the Chief Justice (the Hon. C. P. Skerrett) was oeeup ; d most of the day yesterday in hearing argument on the motion by the Deputy-Official Assignee to declare void certain documents between the Union Bank of Australia. William Kerr, cx-manager for the bank at Stratford, and others. Decision was reserved. To-morrow His Honour leaves for Eltham to heal' several compensation claims to commence on Monday morning. On the grounds of desertion, Francis George Yates was granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months. He related that he was married to Iris Emma Gibson in September, 1905, at the Anglican Church at Inglewood. Of the four children, two were born dead. The couple lived in Various parts of Taranaki until ho went into camp in May, 1918. He left New Zealand in July of the same year, and returned in September, 1919. Mrs. Yates was then living at Vogeltown, New Plymouth, and he went to her. He suggested that they should go on a farm, but she <n» jectcd, so petitioner went to work at Huinga, Toko. Though he visited his wife on occasions they did not get on well after his return from the- war. She spoke of leaving him, but he dia not take her seriously. In 1920, he received a telegram announcing that reispondent was going away, and on coming in to .New Plymouth he found she bad gone, leaving the two children behind. He had not seen or heard from her since then. Three years ago he went share-milking near Afokau, and was now n butter factory assistant at Ahititi. BAN KRUPTCY MATTERS. Judgment was reserved after argi. tnent had been heard on. a motion for a declaration that certain property or a farm at Nolantowu, Haweru, should pass to the Deputy-Official Assignee, acting in the bankrupt estate of Edgar Joseph Harrison. The opponents of the application were the Pease trustees, who held, it was contended, a mortgagee’s interest in the property m dispute. Discharge from bankruptcy was granted John George Lippingwell.