DIVORCE PETITION FAILS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20937, 18 August 1933, Page 6

DIVORCE PETITION FAILS

RICHARDSON CASE CONCLUDE#' AT AUCKLAND ' " ® (FR3SS ASSOCIATION TJtLEOBUt.) AUCKLAND, August 17. The hearing was concluded in Ota/., , Supreme Court of a petition for divorce brought by Kenneth RahttfGeorge Richardson against Mona Maty Richardson, the petitioner misconduct. The jury found that ijo"' misconduct had occurred, and the petj»v* tion was dismissed, with costs aga}^--the petitioner. The case, which , seven days, was heard before Mr jSHSt.' tice Smith, the petitioner citipg as co--respondent Harry Reginald Jenkjns,' ! h a company director, of Auckland, ~ claiming from him £IOOO damagiißjaSßflii His Honour instructed the inrv there were three questions to anaftp£^»' (1) Did the respondent commit'nMW conduct with the co-respondent? feaßlßgi (2) Did the co-respondent misconduct with the respondent?. gaßßy (3) What damages, if any, should awarded? The jury retired at 4.20, and-tiillSB I ', turned at 5.50, when the foreman ttSSBSit nounced that their answer to quejfei;. tions one and two was "No." Mr R. A. Singer, for the respondeat.;^'i asked that the petition be dismissed;- 1 !; His Honour: Yes. The petitioq dismissed. Mr Singer asked for costs .on of the respondent; Mr A. *L. stone requested costs on behalf atjßßEl co-respondent, which were £ach case. ' Mr Singer: I have my client's -toSsE structions, sir, to ask if you wiU-fe'Sf good enough to hear her divorce tion to-morrow. I think I may ommBMII put it that she wishes to rid heira.|||-< oI her husband's name. Sbe Halßl cleared her name, and she wishes Ha—to be clear of her husband. , Mmm His Honour: Mr Justice HerdraMi will be hearing divorce cases to»n»BHp r °Mr Singer: Thank you, sir. I .111111 mention it to him. . '