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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24959, 21 August 1946, Page 3

CROt Before Mr J. preme Court yesUx,. Climie, a traveller (Mr with him Mr E. M. Hay), was gi«...ca a decree nisi, to be made absolute after three months, on a petition for divorce against May Olive Climie (Mr A. C. Perry), on the ground of adultery, with Robert Ashworth, a dental mechanic (Mr D. W. Russell). A cross-petition by Mrs Climie on the ground of her husband’s alleged adultery with Mrs Kathleen Marewa Christie (Mr R. A. Young) was dismissed, as also was the allegation against Mrs Christie, who intervened to deny the charge. Mr Perry said Mrs Climie would offer n £ evidence in answer to the petitioner’s allegation, as she preferred to proceed on her own petition. Mr Russell said the co-respondent, Ashworth, would offer no evidence in answer tc \. the r . allegatlons set out the petition. J*-JX Youn Ss for Mrs Christie, submitted that no admissible evidence had been offered against his client: and the ca »? ainst her was dismissed. Mr Thomas said there were no grounds for divorce on Mrs Climie’s cross-peti-tion; and, if there had been, the case iY as « pse L^ y condonation of any offence by Mrs Climie consenting to live with her husband as man and wife in April. Mr Perry submitted that condonation required full and free forgiveness, which need not necessarily be inferred. It could have been a trick. His Honour said the wife and co-re-spondent did not dispute what was alleged to have taken place, and the evidence had abundantly established the offence The petitioner, Climie, would be granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute after three months. Infidelity by the husband, however, had not been proved, and, if it had, there was evidence of condonation by the wife’s association with her husband subsequently. The crosspetition would be dismissed. The allegation against the intervener, Mrs* Christie, had not been proved, and would be dismissed.