PETITIONS FOR DIVORCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16926, 12 August 1918, Page 3

PETITIONS FOR DIVORCE

SEVERAL UNDEFENDED CASES . DECREES NISI GRANTED. Several undefended divorce cases were heard by Mr. Justice Cooper in tbe Supremo Court on Saturday. On tho ground of desertion and misconduct, George John Jones, Grcenmeadowa, Napier (Mr. A Moody), Bought tho dissolution of hit marriago with Kathleen Jones. Petitioner said that after three or four months of married life at Wanganui the respondent, who was & muse, left his home and followed her profession in different towns of the Dominion. She resisted his repeated requests that she should return home, and on ono occasion told him that after waiting five or six years she would ask him to givo her her freedom. Eventually ho learned that sho had given birth to a child, and obtained from her a written admission of misbehaviour, without disclosing tho nanio of the person, His Honor granted a decreo nisi. » Another case of misbehaviour with an unknown person was that in which Emily Norali Stono (Mr. Gregory) sought dissolution of her marriage with Charles E. Stono. Petitions produced a written admission of misconduct, and was granted a decree nisi. Charles Mundy (Mr. Hall Skelton) petitioned for a divorce from Henrietta .Mundy. The parties were married at Helonsville in January, 1899, and lived together in various parts of Auckland Province. The petitioner stated that in 1918, when their homo was at Kntikati, respondent came to Auckland, and ho had fruitlessly endeavoured "to induce her. to return homo. A decree nisi was granted. Misconduct was the ground of tho petition in which Beatrice L. C. Jowett (Mr. A. Moody) asked to be released from her I marriage to Samuel Jowett, wool dealer. Tho parties wero married at Napier in March, 1909, and wero living at Herno Bay last year, when petitioner _ left her I husband's house on account of bis having I contracted a certain disease, and also having admitted immorality with "other J women. A decree uifli was granted, and I petitioner was given tho custody of the I child of the marriage. f tI The complaint of Ada L. McLeod (Mr. ] Hall Skelton) against her husband, Alexander McLeod, ex-policeman, of Qnehungc, was that of misconduct. Petitioner testified that a letter addressed to her husband and signed "Ethel" co-ne into her hands, and she had traced the woman to an Onehunga boardinghouse and obtained from her an admission of relations with respondent. Tho woman stated thai MoLeod had told her that his wifo was dead. She also handed over letters writI ten to her by respondent. Afterwards, the I other woman wrote to witness, «• who had I meanwhile left her husband, stating that t Bhs would not give the respondent up. | Last Easter respondent removed all th« I furniture from the house in which witness I was living. Two witnesses stated that a man whom Mrs. McLeod had pointed out j as her husband, was . living with j another woman at Porisonby. His Honor adjourned the case to enable further evidence to be given as to the handwriting of the letters produced, and also* as to tho identification of the person alleged to be living with tho respondent. \ ; ; ■ Papers that were previously lacking in the case of Thomas 0. Davis (Mr. *A.

Moody) v. Minnie Davis and Frank E. Diver were produced, and. a decree nisi was granted. / >•. .;'