DIVORCE PETITION DISMISSED.
A DISTURBING ELEMENT. The petition brought by Alice Wilhelmina Grubb (Mr. Dickson) against i William Drummond Grubb (Mr. Hogg) in the defended divorce action heard by Mr. Justice Stringer in the Supreme : Court yesterday culminated in the dis- ' missing of the petition. The grounds of ; the divorce were given as desertion. The : | evidence of the respondent, which was a . denial of allegations of drunkenness, and a submission that his wife preferred a , boarder, was concluded in the afternoon. ) His Honor stated that the evidence did > not prove habitual drunkenness. The cvii dence on both sides was unsatisfactory ' as to desertion, and there was no doubt . that the boarder was a disturbing elc- > ment. "If the husand had been a more manly person he would have asserted . his authority by kicking the boarder out ; of the house; but apparently the grey > mare proved the better horse, and it was the husband who left," said his Honor, in holding the petitioner responsible for the continued separation and. dismissing ntbe petition. .1
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1926, Page 3
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