UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE
Decision was reserved by Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court yesterday in a divorce case in which husband and wife each petitioned for a dissolution of the marriage on the ground ot adultery. The petitioner was Meri Kuini Haurotea Cadwallader, and the respondent was William Clarence Lewelleyn Cadwallader, a farmer, of Nireaha. His cross-petition named his nephew, Mervyn Wilkin, also of Nireaha, as co-respondent.
After a two-day hearing the jury were out for nearly four hours. They found that the respondent had committed adultery with the petitioner's sister, as alleged and admitted, that the petitioner and Wilkin had committed adultery, that the petitioner had not connived at the adultery of the respondent, and that the petitioner had not. been guilty of conduct conducing to the adultery of the respondent.
Mr. C C. Marsack, of Masterton, appeared for the petitioner, Mr. A. J. Mazengarb for the respondent, arid Mr. J. A. Grant, Palmerston North, for the co-respondent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 11
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189UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 11
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