APPEAL COURT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11534, 17 March 1903, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

(P&KSS JISSOCIATIOM TSIJXHUIf.) ■ ' WELLINGTON, March 16. , ' The Court of Appeal opened this morn* * ing. The Chief Justice and Judges WU* '- liams, Conollv, and Edwards were on the { Bench. A Westland case, Earl v. King/i / was added to the liet, and it was agreed ' that the case, MoGrath v. Hill, under the ~ Gaming and Lotteries: Act, argued before ;';, tho Chief Justice last year, should be re* ' - argued before the full* Bench. Argument to rescind an order giving ! leave to appeal in forma pauperis, in tlw case Mitchell v the New Zealand Loan tnd Mercantile Agency Company and othew, was concluded in the Court of Appeal thi* nftemoon, and/ judgment reserved. The Court then heard the appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Conolly in Bewa T • Bews and another. This was a petition ' for divorce, in which husband was petii tioner. The petitioner and hie wife had' been separated, and petitioner having r«4. son to suspect his wife of misconduct, had watched the house in which she was living, taking a friend with him se witness, and in this wav had detected and obtaineo evidence of aduitcry. Mr Justice ConoUy refused a decree of dissolution of the mar. ' riage, holding this conduct aawunted tc" connivance on the part of the husband. Mr Baume appeared in support of tlw appeal, there being no appeorande for n> > spondent or co-respondent. After netting '' Mr Baume, the Court uuanimouely allowed '] ' the appeal, and made a decree aisi for V dissolution of marriage, to be made abao* - lute after three months, with costs £15 ' ' and witneEses , expense* and disbursement* against the co-reepondent.