DIVORCE GRANTED.
ON GROUNDS OF INSANITY \ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In the Supreme Court a decrey nisi to he made absolute after three months was granted to Samuel Buckett, a retired civil servant, of Dunedin (Mr A. W. Brown) who petitioned for divorce from Margaret Marion. Buckett (Mr E. W. White) on the grounds’of insanity. After hearing medical evidence from Dr. E, W. Bellringer and Dr. R. H. Q. Baxter, his Honor held that tlie necessary points had been proved —the respondent had been “of unsound mind” for the last seven years and during the last three had been confined “as such” and the facts disclosed that had her case come before a stipendiary magistrate she would have been committed to a mental hospital.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 8
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