DECREE NISI

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1932, Page 5

DECREE NISI

FIELD DIVORCE CASE HUSBAND GAINS THE DAY. LEGAL. EXPENSES £20,000. (United Press Association~By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.in.) SYDNEY, May 2.

Judgment was delivered today in a society divorce suit which has broken nil Stale records.. It has occupied S’7 days and a total of 103 witnesses was examined. The legal costs are estimated at £20,000. The parties were Sydney John Field, moat exporter, and his wife, Ivy Field, who initiated the suit, alleging misconduct. TII9 husband liled a cross petition on the same ground, three persons as co-respondents, two of whom were struck out of the ease during the hearing.

The third co-respondent, Roland Nott, warehouseman, was today adjudged guilty of misconduct with Airs Field. Atr Justice Owen found that Atrs Field had been reckless and untruthful in her charges against her husband, and that her allegations with regard to his misconduct with other women and her charges of •cruelty had not been proved. On the other hand, Atrs Field was held to have been guilty of misconduct with Nott in the early part of last year.

Counsel for the wife and Nott announced their intention of appealing. The-husband’s alimony payments or £SO a week to his wife were reduced to £ls. -

A decree nisi was pronounced. The husband was ordered to pay his wife’s costs, also the costs of the two co-res-pondents eliminated from the case. Nott was ordered to pay Air Field’s costs.