STRONG INFERENCE OF ADULTERY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 5

STRONG INFERENCE OF ADULTERY.

INVEErCLYDE GRANTED DIVORCE (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) ‘ (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) ■ LONDON. Dec. 22 Lord Inverclyde was granted a divorce, with expenses, against Paanakker. . . , ' Lord Fleming, in giving judgment, salid that a year after the marriage Lady Inverclyde proposed that her husband pay her £SOOO a year unconditionally. Her solicitors advised her that the proposal was illegal. The matter was then dropped, but it had a material bearing on the case, for it demonstrated that within a year the parties were so estranged that Lady Inverclyde had contemplated the contingency—as she put it herself —of going off with another man and endeavouring to secure pecuniary benefit from her husband in the event of that happening; Bis Honour held that on one or more occasions Paanakker had spent a whole night in her flat; so he expressed the opinion that facts proved relevant to infer her guilt. Lord Fleming ordered Paanakker to pay Inverclyde’s costs, and also recoup him for the payments to his wife, on the ground that his conduct .necessitated action.