PETITIONS SUCCEED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 194, 18 August 1942, Page 6

PETITIONS SUCCEED

DIVORCE AND RESTITUTION

One petition for divorce and two for restitution of conjugal rights were successfully pleaded in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Fair. Evidence that she and respondent had not lived together since an agreement to separate was entered into in July, 1932, was given by Jessica May Letltla Coulter (Mr. Robinson) in her petition for divorce against Denis Coulter. The parties were married in October, 1930. A decree nisi was granted.

Because he had asked, to be repaid the sum of £200, or even portion of it, money he had guaranteed to a bunk on behalf of a brother-in-law, his wife had refused to live with him, said Woolsey Allen, sawmiller (Mr. Haigh), in petitioning for an order for restitution of conjugal rights against his wife, Norah Allen. That was in 1939, and though he had asked her to return to him she had not done so. An order was made for respondent to return within 28 days of the service of the order.

"We were quite happy before I went to the war in October, 1940, but on returning in June, 1941, I noticed a difference in my wife," said Norman Erlwin Cowie-Wilson, clerk (Mr. Rogers) In seeking an order for restitution against Grace Olive CowieWilson. She was then living with her parents, and in August following his return she asked him not to call upon her, as she did not want to have anything to do with him. They had not lived together since. An order for respondent to return within 28 days after the service of the order was made.