DIVORCE LAW.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 22 September 1922, Page 2

DIVORCE LAW.

ANOTHER JUDICIAL CLASSIC. Wellington, Sept 21. Sir John Salmond gave judgment in the divorce ease Lodder v. Lodder, which is askin to the well-known Mason case, and promises like it to rank as a judicial classic. The marriage took place as far back as 1882, the husband now being 65 and the wife 62. Since 1908 they had lived apart, one here and the other in Auckland. The immediate cause of 1 separation was the objection taken by the wife to the husband’s friendship with another woman, but adultery was not alleged or proven, nor any other recognised form of matrimonial offence. The judge found that flfi* husband did give cause for jealousy, and was in fact the immediate and effective cause of the separation, but the law, as amended in consequence of the Mason case, still gave discretion to a judge, and in exercise of this discretion Sir John Salmond held there was no reason to refuse dissolution of marriage, for it was evident its continuance would serve no useful purpose, either in the interest of the public or the parties themselves.