A DIVORCE CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8369, 28 February 1907, Page 5

A DIVORCE CASE.

By Telegraph—Press Association,

WELLINGTON, Last Night

After a retirement of about an hour and a half the jury in the divorce suit of William Pacey y. Thomasina Pacey and E. W. Dorset, found that respondent had committed adultery with Dorset prior to her departure from Levin, but that Pacey condoned this. They further found that there had been subsequent acts of adultery between respondent and co-respondent, and that three separate allegations of adultery made against petitioner were false. They therefore found for petitioner, and awarded him £IOO damages against co-respondent. His Honour then granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months.

His Honour,,in giving judgment on an application to make the corespondent liable for the wife's costs, said he thought the husband should pay these in accordance with the usual practice. He had brought an extortionate claim for £1,500, and had been awarded only £IOO, so it could not be said that there were special circumstances to justify a departure from the general course followed. His Honour ruled that the petitioner pay £SO as respondent's costs, and that the co-respondent pay £IOO damages and £45 costs of petitioner, and also re-pay to petitioner the £4O expenses allowed to respondent. Co-respondent also has to pay disbursements, costs of court, witnesses, etc.

CABLE tfEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigkt