DIVORCE CASES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8

DIVORCE CASES

DECREES GRANTED. • The sitting of the Supreme Court to hear undefended applications in divorce was continued before Mr. Justico Hosking yesterday after The Post went to press. George Mason (Mr. Wilford) was granted a decree nisi (to be made absolute in three months) for a divorce from Annie Mason, on the grounds of adultery. No co-respondent was named, Mr. Wilford calling police evidence to show that the woman was professionally immoral. The petitioner said he was away from New Zeaalnd for .two years carrying out a building contract, and when he returned he found his wife had taken to evil living. Mr. Wilford stated that the children were in the custody of the petitioner. A decree nisi, to be made absolve in three > months, was granted on the ap plication of Isabel M. Taylor for a divorce from Percy Harold Taylor, on the grounds of adultery. Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for the petitioner. Evidence was given by the petitioner and her mother. The petitioner was giver, custody of the only child. Costs were given against the respondent. Henry Edward Bayers asked for a decree divorcing him from Mary Ellen Sayers, on the ground of adultery. Mr. T. Young appeared for the petitioner, who stated that the latter left his wife in 1910, on account of her misbehaviour with Stephen Dempsey. She had lived with -Dempsey as his wife ever since, and the couple had two children. Corroborative evidence was called. A decree nisi was made, to be made absolute ih threo months. Costs wero awarded against the co-respondent. Eliza Thorpe petitioned for a divorce from Walter James Thorpe. 'Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for the petitioner. Mrs. Thorpe stated that she was married in 1908. She was now separated from her husband, having obtained an order on account of his cruelty to her. A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted.