Supreme Court ACTIONS IN DIVORCE

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 10

Supreme Court ACTIONS IN DIVORCE

Decrees Nisi Granted Decrees nisi were granted in the following petitions for divorce heard before Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday:— Separation agreement Frances Mary McTigue (Mr I. C. J. Polson) v. James Colin McTigue: Cornelius Hol (Mr R. J. de Gold!) v. Nelly Hol (Mr P. G. S. Penlington): Rona Gwendoline Smith (Mr L. A. Moore) v. John Alexander Smith: Albert Edward Lott (Mf R. F. B. Berry ) v. Joan Linda Lott (Mr R. Stewart); Evan Butler Graham (Mr P. H. T. Alpers) v. Betty Constance Graham. Desertion.—Robert Alfred McFarlane (Mr J. F. Burn) v. Phyllis Mabel McFarlane. Adultery.—Ernest Waldon Ennis (Mr de Goldi) v. Dorothy Margaret Ennis and Frank Kidd as co-respondent; Patrick Ward Albertson, known as Patrick Ward (Mr Penlington) v. Clair Madge Ward and Reginald Tauwhare as co-respondent; Kenneth Samuel' Rutledge (Mr R. L, Kerr) v. Audrey Rutledge and John Herbert Johnson as co-respondent: Yvonne Lorna Finlayson (Mr P. A. Oldham) v. Roy Donald Finlayson (Mr Perry).

Unsound Mind. Dulcie Muriel Maxwell (Mr B. S. McLaughlin) v. Mervin Charles Maxwell (Mr Polson).

Family Dispute Settled

Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday by consent dismissed an action brought by Olivia Fanny Ingram. a married woman, of Christchurch, and Ellen Elizabeth Strez, a machinist, of Christchurch, against Violet Pansy Ogilvie, a married woman, of Christchurch, trustea of their brother's estate.

The plaintiffs had sought £75 from the trustee. They claimed that the money was proceeds of a house which the trustee had sold on behalf of their brother’s estate when it had rightly belonged to their mother, who had predeceased him. The mother had died intestate.

William Herbert Strez, a railway employee, of Leeston. withdrew as a joint plaintiff before the hearing commenced, and the claim was amended from JEII2 to £75, Another brother, Francis Adolphus Strez, a railway employee, of Christchurch, made no appearance and was not represented. In another action his Honour by consent made an order on behalf of the plaintiff, Mrs Ogilvie, as trustee of the estate of Albert Waiter Strez, a fisherman, of Leeston, barring the claims on Strez’s estate of Mrs Ingram, Miss Strez, and William and Francis Strez.

Mr H. J. B. Quigley appeared for Mrs Ogilvie, and Mr L. M. O’Reilly appeared for Mrs Ingram and Miss Strez in both actions.