HUSBAND AND WIFE
"SHORT CUT TO DIVORCE"
COMMENT-BY JUDGE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON," This Day.
On the ground that it had obviously been sought only as a short-cut to divorce, an application for an order granting restitution of conjugal rights to Alexander Hewson, farmer, of Cambridge, against Agnes Florence Hewson, was dismissed by Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Hamilton today.
"Though I am sorry for these people I cannot grant the application," said his Honour, "for it is apparent that they are just trying to take a short-cut to divorce. The only inference that can be drawn from the letters to one another is that realising their stupid mistake in marrying they evolved this method of securing a divorce."
It was shown that the parties were married as a result of an advertisement.
Messrs. Silver, Young, and Cosh, solicitors, Ayr, have sold to the National Trust for Scotland the building at Tarbolton, Ayrshire, which housed the Bachelors' Club, formed by Robert Burns in 1780. It was in this building that Burns was installed a Freemason. Under a clearance order of the Ayr County Council the building was to have been demolished.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 138, 8 December 1937, Page 14
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194HUSBAND AND WIFE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 138, 8 December 1937, Page 14
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