Twenty-three years ago John King Brown married. Ellen Rebecca Wash, ington. In the Supreme Court in Wellington yesterday Brown sued for the annulment of the marriage, alleging that the woman had been previously married and that when the petitioner married her she had a husband still living. The facts were that the woman had married a man named Webber in 1898. Six months later Webber left her and later she heard from Webber’s relatives that he was dead. In 1904 she married Brown. In evidence Brown admitted that his wife had sued him for maintenance. David Webber, brother of respondent’s first husband, said lie saw his brother at a race meeting in 1904. Without calling on the respondent. the Judge dismissed the case on th'- ground that the evidence of We’ ,er wa.s unsatisfactory and tin- .ole and it failed to prove the petitioner’s case.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 31 August 1927, Page 8
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