SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

DIVORCE PETITION DEFENDED Alan Robert Field, a painter and paperhanger (Mr A. Hearn), is petitioning in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Adams for divorce from Phyllis May Field (Mr H. W.

Thompson) on the ground of her alleged adultery with lan Douglas Proudfoot, a storeman, named as corespondent. in her home at Waimate on the night of November 6-7, 1954.

The case was part heard yesterday. The evidence for the petitioner was completed and evidence was given by one witness for the respondent.

Mrs Field is opposing the petition. Her case is a denial of the alleged adultery and a further answer that if it was held that adultery occurred it was contributed to or induced by the conduct of the husband.

Mr Hearn outlined the case for the petitioner and submitted that the circumstances in which Mrs Field and Proudfoot were found were incompatible with any innocent explanation.

Evidence was given by the petitioner, and by George Joseph Hart, an inquiry agent; Lester George Tyerman, a carpenter; and Alice May Field, a widow, and mother of the petitioner.

The case for the respondent was a denial of the alleged adultery plus an allegation that the petitioner’s conduct induced the conduct complained of if it should be proved, said Mr Thompson.

Phyllis May Field, the respondent, gave evidence and the hearing was adjourned to this morning.