DECREE NISI
RESCINDING AND REVERSING ORDER MADE IN SUPREME COURT (By Telegraph— Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Perjury and the fabrication of evidence by John Black Batchelor, a solicitor’s agent, in the Dixon divorce case resulted in the intervention of the Soli-citor-General to have a decree nisi granted last year reversed. The plea was heard to-day by Mr Justice Johnston in the Supreme Court. He made an order rescinding and reversing the decree. It "'as stated that petitioner, Cyril ' Dixon, a trimmer, had disappeared. Ethel lsobel Dixon was respondent in the case last year. The Solicitor-General’s application was lodged on the grounds - that the material facts had not been before the Court. As a result of his offences m regard to the divorce petition. Batchelor was convicted some time, ago and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 April 1934, Page 5
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136DECREE NISI Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 April 1934, Page 5
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