JUDGES BUSY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 8

JUDGES BUSY.

DIVORCE FLOOD.

CITY'S RECORD LIST.

MANY PETITIONS HEARD. OVER FIFTY THIS MORNING. The heaving of the record list of over 170 petitions for divorce or applications for orders for restitution of conjnjr.il rights, filed for the present quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court, was begun this morning by Mr. Justice Oetler and ill*. Justice Fair. At the luncheon adjournment ">'t case* had been dealt u ith. Brought Baby Round. Diving evidence supporting his petition against Dorothy Koee McKay on tlu> grounds of adultery, Leslie James McKay said in March, 1935, he and his wife agreed to separate. There was then one child, and after the separation his wife would bring , the baby round in a perambulator for petitioner to take out. One week-end respondent was ill, and the co-respondent, Walter Christie, brought the baby. Subsequently petitioner found his wife and Christie were living together. A decree ni»i was granted.

"The respondent admitted to me he had lived with three women other, than his wife, but be refused'to supply any of ftieir names," said a witness giving evidence in support of the petition of Ivy May I/arsen (Mr. Nutsford) against William Henry Larsen. The petitioner said she had tackled her husband about his association with other women, but h<> refused to give them up. A decree nisi HHfi granted.

"During the last four years we lived together lie was habitually drunk—he lived on what I could earn, and would never made an effort to sup|K>rt mo," suid Dora Winifred Batcup (Mr. Dickion), who successfully pleaded habitual drunkenness against Roy Bateup. CONSTRUCTIVE DESERTION. Because of her husband's habitual drunkenness Kllen Piggales (Mr Afkine) said she had twice had to leave her husband, Alfred Amoe Piggales. While away from him on the first occasion he wrote that he had a home for her to return to, but the home wae a room at the back of a fleh ehop, and had only a bed and box in it. Petitioner finally left him in 1930. A decree nisi was granted on the ground* of constructive desertion.

On the grounds of separation for three years by Court order or written ' or verbal agreement, decree* nisi were granted in the following petitions: — Freda M orison (Mr. Dickson) against Donald Cedric Morieon; Ethel Marie Campbell (Mr. Nutsford) againet Robert Campbell; Margaret Ivankovic- (Mr. Matthews) againet Joseph Ivankovic; Irene Edna Hynea (Mr. Nutsford) against John Hynea; Mabel Alice Hayden (Mr. Dickson) againet Henry James Hayden; William Ivey (Mr. Nutsford) I against Jean Eyres Ivey; Melba Cooper Phillip* (Mr. Matthews) against Neville Langford Phillips; Marjorie Gwendoline Hoar (Mr. 'Dickson) * againet Seddon Hoar; Laurel Evelyn Kelly (Mr. Nutsf'ord) ngainst Owen Alfthonsus, Kelly; J vy Elizabeth Dewar (Mr. MatthWs) s?ainet John Dewar; Norah Ellen Staeey (Mr. Matthew*) against Thomas William Stacey; Elizabeth Beale Pnrker (Mr. Matthews') againet John .Tames Parker; Noel Edmund Keith Wright (Mr. Terry) against Gladys Dora Wright; Edwin Alfred Stentiford (Mr. Hough) v. Joyce Ada Stentiford; Florence Anderson (Mr. Anderson) v. Dud! ley lon Anderson; Bertha Mary Annie Kingi-Tenara (Mr. Winter) v. William Hadley KinpiTena'ra; Eunice Corona , Beveridge (Mr. Townshend) v. Robert | Scott Beveridge; Margaret Elvira McLeod (Mr. Townshend) v. Neil McLeod; Olive May Demchv (Mr. Urquhart) v. John Henry Demeby; Catherine Pike (Mr. Ooldwater) v. Joseph James Pike; Alvine Mainness Foran (Mr. Townshend) v. Edward Joseph Foran; Llewellyn Ethorington (Mr. Burt) v. Daisy Caroline Jopejibine Etherington; Jane Monahan (Mr. .Tor-' dnn) v. Edward Thomas Monahan; William Frederick Morris (Mr. Manning) v,' Dorothy Agnes Morris; Ann Lock wood (Mr. Hiiban) v. Joseph Lock wood: Edna Mildred Blanche Campbell (Mr. Jordan) v. Claudius Gordon Campbell; Enid Pearl Christina Oreaney (Mr. Noble) v. David Daniel Oreaney; Clementeen Evelyn Orr (Mr. Bramwell) v. John George Orr. Grounds of Adultery. On the ground* of adultery, Hilda Stokes (Mr. Nutsford) wae granted a decree nisi on her petition against John James Ernest Stokes; and Alfred Thornton Smith (Mr. Field) a decree nisi against Lilian Smith, William Milicich Mitchell being cited as co-respondent. DESERTION PROVED. Desertion was successfully pleaded by the petitionere in the following cases: Ralph Hedley Burton (Mr. Dickson) against Thelma Burton; James Frederick Charles Hale (Mr. Snedden) against Hazel Elizabeth Hale; Winifred Frances Hannan (Mr. Nuteford) against James Alexander Hannan; Clarice Mary Whyte (Mr. Nuteford) againet John Rattray Whyte; Howard Milsoai Edmonds (Mr. Dickson) against Bertha Edmonds; Lilian Annie Samom (Mr. Thomae) against Haydon Theodore feansom. The respondents having failed to comply with orders for restitution of conjugal right*, a, decree nisi was granted the petitioner in each of the following cases: Jennie Isobel Cox (Mr. Dickson) againet George Galloway Cox; Hughie Joyce Hodge (Mr. Dickson) againet Phyllis Hodge; Esther Alma Whittfield (Mr. Matthew*) against John William Whittfleld; Albert Edward Hogg (Mr. Dickson) against Annie Alice Hogg; I George Seymour Million (Mr. Matthews) against Jessie Million; Ronald Eric Phimestcr (Mr. Aekina) against Anita Milly Phimester; Gladys May Cooper (Mr. Stevens) against William Gordon Cooper; Albert Henry August Ruback againet Rongamai Jean Ruback; Muriel Frances Beagley (Mr. White)* against James Alexander Beagley; Charles Eton Bellworthv (Mr. Bainbrfcure) acainat

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