DUNEDIN DIVORCE CASE.
(BY telegraph.—press association.)
* Dunedin, this day. The divorce caße of Collie v. Collie was a wife's petition for dissolution, on the grounds of the husband's adultery. The parties were married in 1885, and have two children. The respondent is charged with being intimate with Margaret Williams, by whom ho had a child, and treating the petitioner cruelly. The respondent makes a general denial, but his letter admitting adultery was put in. The petitioner was too ill to appear. The evidence given shows thab.the respondent while employed at the Industrial School, Caversham, is alleged to have been improperly intimate with one of the inmates. The case is proceeding. Mr Justice Williams reserved his decision. The respondent admitted the adultery, but disputed the charge of cruelty, which, as alleged, was of a peculiar and mr expressible kind, so peculiar that counsel for the respondent stated that he had been unable to discover a parallel case in the law books. Sir R. Stout commented on the absurdity of the law under which a man could get a divorce for his wife's unfaithfulness, bub the wife could not get one until she had proved cruelty a? well.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1890, Page 5
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