PROLONGED DIVORCE SUIT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 5

PROLONGED DIVORCE SUIT.

MOST EXPENSIVE IN N.S.W. i PARTIES AS YOU WERE. <(By Telograph-Press 'A3sn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A tangled divorce case which lasted •seven weeks with costs totalling £BOOO io £IO,OOO, ended with the parties as they were at the beginning. Tom St. Aubins Bakewell sought a divorce from Mary Gwendoline Bakewell, formerly Bruell, nee Cantwell, on the grounds of adultery with her former husband \Bruell; and another. Mrs Bakewell "denied the charge but alleged that her husband committed adultery with three other women and claimed a- judicial separation on those grounds. The judgment traversed a strange hiatory of marital relationship. In 1921 Mrs Bakewell, then Mrs Bruell sought a' divorce from Bruell on the ground of adultery. The suit, was undefended and a decree granted, but the Crown intervened and the decree was rescinded because it was shown that false evidence h3d been given, alsothat at the time the petition was filed "Mrs Bruell was living in adultery with' Bakewell, her present husband. Three I .years later Bruell was granted a di-1 vorce on the grounds of whis wife 'a adultery with Bakewell who subsequently married her. Mr Justice Owen's judgment took ninety minutes to deliver. The case is the longest and most expensive in Now South Wales State legal records. The judge found all allegations of adultery on both sides" proved, dismissed the suits and ordered Bakewell to pay his wife's costs.