UNUSUAL DIVORCE SUIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 138, 13 June 1929, Page 27

UNUSUAL DIVORCE SUIT.

WOMAN SUES A WOMAN. "ALIENATION OF AFFECTION" ALLEGED. . (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 7. For the first time in the history of the N.S.W. Divorce Courts a woman is suing another woman for alienating the affections of a husband from her. The claim is for £1000 damages, and the case is- now pending in the Divorce Court. The plaintiff is Ada Chaseling, of Valencia Flats, Cremornc, Sydney, who was married on January 1, 1896, at Albury, to James Herbert Chaseling, who subsequently became a clergyman. On September 7, 1928, Ada Chaseling. whose former name was Fullerton, was granted a decree nisi, which later was made absolute. James Herbert Chaseling married again. Ada Chaseling has now issued a writ claiming £1000 damages from Ethel Chaseling, the present wife of James Chaseling, and in the filed declaration, she alleges that Ethel Chiseling, at the time the plaintiff was the wife of James Herbert Chaseling, enticed "him to depart from her and remain absent from her society," and that "she lost his support as a husband and his protection and comfort." Ethel Chaseling has filed a plea denyin"- the plaintiff's allegations. This is the first time that such an action has been taken in a New South Wales Court, and it is causing great interest in legal circles.