REMARKABLE MATRIMONIAL SUIT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

REMARKABLE MATRIMONIAL SUIT.

In the Divorce division, m-ently, Mr. Justice Butt 1> id before him the civ; of " Elmhirat v. Elinhirst."— The petition w.i« th il of thy wife for a decree of judicial separation hy re i«on of tho allt jrtd adultery of hor hush m.i, C i^t .uu Edw .ird iVnncli KlnihiiKt, Life of the oOlh reir iment, with Mi>s Helen Livingstone — He filed an answer denying th" charge, und pleaded Anicricui domic ilo, and tli.it he had obt unod a divorce in the United St itp» f i oni thi> p(tiiioii"i. The- petitioner was th» daughter ot Mr Kimi.iird, of 17 ( Kensington Pain' c-gardfii*. She married the respondent on the -2ud April, 1873. In tho hunting-field tVic i o-ponde&t met Miss In November 1883, one ot the servants m.ido a communication to Mrt EWnhirst, to the effent fh-it she had seen Ciptaiu Elmhtrst go into Mi«h Livingstone'/* room. When spoken to on tho subject the respondent denied it The petitioner, however, instated on Miss Liviugntone leaving the house. About ChrHtrnuH, 1883, when Mrs. Elnihirst wis in London, her hU^bpnd met with an accident in the hunting field, aud he was taken to the hniise of Miss Livingstone, who attunded him Upon this routing to the petitlrtnci's knowledirc she wrote to her hu>band, but. ho replied that after her letter he would leave Rotherby. H<> afterwards went to America, and boiiffht a cattle rancbo at Montani. He was shortly afterwprds joined hy Mis 3 Liviujr^tone, and the next fcliinij iho pptition«*r beard of him was that he had obtained ajjiinst her an American divorce. — Mrs Elmhirst, the petitioner, in crossexamination, admitted that her hnsb.md always denied the charge with Miss Livinffhtone. Her objeut in askinsr fi>r a judicial heparation was to prove that sho was his legal wife — Mr Justice Butt thought the petitioner was entitled to the relict she prayed, and he granted a decree of judicial separation, with co^ts.