A FALSE FRIEND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1926, Page 5

A FALSE FRIEND.

HOME BROKEN UP. DIVORCE AND DAMAGES. (By Telegraph.—Own CorresiiouJent.) J HAMILTON, this day. j A claim for £:300 damages for the , i breaking up of his home waj brought by , ' ■ a labourer of Frankton, named James j■[ Joseph Gaylor, against a friend of 20 ■ .'years' standing, named Robert Dinsdale. {. iabc.nrer, iif Frankton, in the Hamilton! . Supreme Court, before his Honor. Mr.! J Justice Stringer, and a jury of 12. Gaylor j also nought a decree nisi against his j [ I wife on the ground.s of misconduct with j I Dinsdale. Mr. J. F. Strang appeared j . j for petitioner. Neither respondent nor: r ! co-respondent filed an answer. ; 1 ; Mr. Strang said that petitioner and . ' respondent had been married for 12

j years. Dinsdale was practically a life '' j long iriend of the parties and was a! ■ , frequent visitor to their home. Peti-j----r ; Ticßt-r and respondent lived happily;' j! together until August of last year. In i j January of last year Gaylor got work at .' j Tirau, which necessitated him remaining •' away from home for lengthy periods. ' ■ Durinc; hi? absence Dinsdale apparently!' ,< continued 10 visit petitioner's house, and , evidence would be piven to show that on I i t ' more than or.c occasion he slept in thei : i same room with Mrs. Oaylor. j' Petitioner. Jtimes Joseph Gaylor, said' q • that lie hart been married for nearly 22 j< .. j year* and had always pot on well with j . i his wife. Dinsdale had been a friend:' (of his for over 10 years and the latter!

Tv.iK n frequent visitor at his home. In i ■Ittiiv.nry. petitioner had to jro to j work at Tirau, with only occasional! visits home. About the Middle of: August, last vcar. in consequence of a ; + s!te*ni'nt mmlc to him by his little boy.! petitioner pa mc to Hamilton a" ,, ! taxed j his wife with mipeonduet with Dinsdale. , Hi? vrifp at fir-t denied the allegation.; fclU later admitted it. Petitioner then ; ' removed his personal possessions and sravp nm iw to quit the house. Next day i she asked him to forgive her. but he ' said he could no:. He stonne-d son-line her maiptcnnncp from that time onward*. ; She sued Wm frr maintenance, but the • p«ep ""ns fTi-r" : s=pfl. X'p till January. 102."). his wife had been a croirl wife and I Ho felt yon" smell the injury . donp him by Dinsdale, who. he undor- | was now living with respondent. Tl>s wife, ni fir la*t interview he had I >rith her. stated that Dinsdale was going i\r Innk atter her. The liVvw-nld daughter of petij tioner. paid That on August 21 of last j year. Din-'dil" visited her mother's house 5 and remained till the 24th. sleeping in 1 her mother's room. On a previous ' r-pcnsion.. witness returned from the ! pictures late, and went to her mother's; rrr. r>. 5 ,, " u.-'mllv slent. but found; ! rlip door Hot mnrher said. "Taj n-,;it yon Filcn?" On witness replvint | : n *!:•■ "flrrma+ivi?. \<t then ealle-1. cut. "You cunt come in, Bob is here , fis'"~r>.'* i His ffonor n*kM witn°ss if Binsdile ! -lent ;>-i/i imd nil hi~ st the house ■ ,M.-si.'r ti>p pr-riorl montiopnd. v\"it-v>«R r"'ili-,l in the affirmative and ■-■> ; 'l that TV-'s-'iale was out rf rvork at i thn tiii'e and Rrinnt the whole time at »i,p :, r »..•>. At tlvt time t'l^r-- , were in :i, r i,-i-en lipt- c- lia n brother and r. ''■-] friend r>f witness*. i The h'tter ;rnve evidence in eorrohoraAfter a short retirement the JUTV rrt"-"pd n vp-d]pt for petitioner, granthiT full f?n T n;T Y es. Prtifir-r.er w« nl«n tH a deere* , r.;;i nrd posts < n the. lower scale.