DIVORCES GRANTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15455, 12 November 1913, Page 5

DIVORCES GRANTED.

TWO UNIONS DISSOLVED.

CASES AT SUPREME COURT.

Two applications for dissolution of marriage came before His Honor, Judge Cooper, at the Supreme Court yesterday. John Irvine Bennett (Mr. Gribbin) asked for the dissolution of his marriage with Fanny . Elizabeth Bennett on the ground of adultery, Arthur Anderson being named as co-respondent. No defence was filed.

The petitioner's evidence was to the effect that he married the respondent at Auckland in 1901. For nine years the parties lived at Mercury Bay where four children were born to them. In 1910 the petitioner went to work at Miranda, and in other places, his wife and family living in Auckland during this time, where the respondent started a boardinghouso with his consent. Ho regularly forwarded her £10 or £11 per month out of his earnings, which were a little over £3 per week. In further evidence it was stated that the respondent and co-respondent had been living as man and wife.v

A decree nisi, to be moved to be made absolute in three months, was granted, the custody of tho cluldren to be determined at the hearing of the motion. In the adjourned case David May Garner v. Laura Fanny Garner, further evidence was called to show that the respondent was an habitual drunkard, and a decree nisi, to be mado absolute in three months, was granted.