Supreme Court DEFENDED DIVORCE
Decree Nisi Granted
After a contested hearing lasting almost three days, Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday granted a decree nisi in divorce to William Richard Airey, a foreman carpenter (Mr S. G. Erber), against his wife, Nettie Alice Airey, a cashier (Mr B. J. Drake). His Honour said he was left in no doubt whatever that Mrs Airey had committed adultery with Terrence John Palmer, a theatre projectionist (Mr R. G Blunt), as alleged, at a house in Packe street, St. Albans, used by Palmer as business headquarters, and part of which Mrs Airey sub-rented as living quarters. Although Mrs Airey’s evidence in denial of adultery had created an initially favourable impression, said his Honour, it lost substantially as cross-examination of Palmer, the co-respondent, proceeded. “I do not think he was honest or truthful with the Court, and his evidence was unacceptable,” his Honour said. Palmer’s association with Mrs Airey had been a great deal closer than either had admitted, his Honour held, and the situation over the Packe street house, which seemed a planned arrangement, made the commission of adultery all the more likely.
His Honour awarded the costs of both petitioner and respondent against Palmer, with 30 guineas a day for the second and third days of hearing. Second Suit Begun The hearing of a second defended divorce suit, set down as a two-day hearing, was begun by his Honour late yesterday afternoon, and will continue today. It is brought by Grace Alexandra Jones (Mr R. G. Blunt) against her husband, Leslie Howison Jones, a cartage contractor (Mr A. D. Holland), alleging his adultery with Roma Kidd, a married woman (Mr Holland). Evidence of no specific act of adultery is offered, but his Honour is asked to infer such from evidence of association between the parties—an infers ence which both Jones and Mrs Kidd contest. Mrs Jones was still giving evidence in chief when the hearing was adjourned to this morning.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31237, 8 December 1966, Page 9
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