"STRIPPED THE HOUSE."
v WIFE'S DEPARTURE. ORDERED TO RETURN. A husband who said liis wife had hired a lorry and "stripped the house," to-day sought a decree in the Supreme Court to secure her return to him. "I am prepared to .do anything to meet you and induce you to return, he had written in a letter to her which was produced in the Court. The petitioner was Robert Campbell Inglis (Mr. Finlay), and the respondent Adelaide Inglis. , In his evidence the petitioner said Jie was married to the respondent in June, 1904. They had lived together until early last November. She then hired a lorrv and removed the furniture and her effects. He discovered soon afterwards '"that she had gone to a house a mile away, but he had not met her since, though he "caught a glimpse of her once. In December he wrote asking her to come back. . • . Five or siv years ago, he said, Jus wife had sought a separation order, out the case was dismissed by the Court. There had been an estrangement ever S1 Mr. Justice Smitli made an order that the respondent should return to the petitioner within fourteen days. . . -
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 20
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