UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16896, 8 July 1918, Page 4

UNUSUAL DIVORCE CASE.

■ l- _ m ■ CO-RESPONDENT'S EVIDENCE, ~'ffl a A DIVORCE case presenting the somewhat ; . M unusual feature of the co-respondent giving] \?M evidence in support of the petition, and 'gjm a • delay of. over. 10 years on the part of ;' ; || petitioner, war heard at the ' Supremo'•' i,M Court on Saturday by Mr. Justice Cooper. ,*J Felix Baker (Mr. McConnell) petitioned , 1 fo.- divorce from his wife, Rosamond-;, 4g Baker, 'William Jury being joined as co- 'k-'ss respondent. Petitioner stated that his wife.!,'.; M had not lived with him since 2904. About/., $M three years later ho received a letter .'ijrgg from his wife suggesting that they should ;vs|§ live together again. He wrote asking her ; vc|| to come to him, but she refused and stated ;?m in her reply that she was living with the ;;|aj co-respondent, and that she, had two chil- : dren, of whom Jury was the father. * ; a» Counsel produced affidavits from the }£ respondent and co-respondent admitting conduct, i'iM William Jury, the co-respondent, stated that the signatures to the nffidmits read were his and that of respondent, and that;6sjs| ,the statements made in the document were true. >','%S His Honor: I suppose you wish t°i;»||| marry this woman and legitimise the chil-,. - j dren'?—That if so. "^^M His Honor : The long delay of over 10 years on the petitioner's part would in,' : §M some countries be a bar to the success of.'%j| the petition, but the, law in New Zealand fgggk expressly excludes it as a bar to divorce, '.fM§ A decree nisi was granted, to be made- Mm absolute in three months, there being ,10 <&|p: children of the marriage. No order wal I made for costs. Cwt