UNDEFENDED DIVORCE CASE'S.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17392, 12 February 1920, Page 6

UNDEFENDED DIVORCE CASE'S.

I! DECREES ' "'two undefended divorce petition* were • lijard;.by Mr. : Justice I Chapman, it; the S«Bt«me Court "yesterday.. ; i',.. Lena •Kathleen -Peer* (Mr. "L.-A. Rogers, TJapie?), against James William Peen, on tigjmotii of 5 drunkenness and failure to/ maintain petitioner and the two children of the marriage. '•■ Tee; peti- '. tioiier wd the marriage took place at Waipawa in 1907, and the lived with hei ': nniU«nd for 12 years.. worked at hit .' trade an a carpenter, but spent all bis money in J drink. Her. mother paid • some cf the household Hl!s. A decree nisi was .granted, with costs, ,;" and ;t the petitioner was giren cwtody b'/ the children. Catherine' Elizabeth' Jackson (Mr. -'..:!■ ■' , : Rogers), 'Petitioned for dissolution;©? *>i :j"ip> ; V'.marrfage; to'iWiriain : Herliert • Jackson: ri' •'' to .the petitioner ~ the marrian took ;place .in" Auckland, in .1913; lEvahtn. 1 ' marriage went to live;,in c ßaj;. According to the petitioner -the marriage took place in Auckland in 1913. Evento. ally tsey went to live in IJaVke's Boy, Her husband icade':ino provision for her, / and (he had to earn her onto living. Hi .admitted misconduct, and; petitioner had lao , received :!etUw:on-se,i'iwbjecV f from , ' women • concerned. ... A. . military medical orderly; gave evidence that tbi> responded introduced him ( to-i a f yonig;'»woman:\ m M Mrs. _ Jackson," bnt later admitted was not his wife, They wet at 'an:bote 1 , at the time. A -decree/nisi was granted, • ...wUVcosta on the lower ecaVe. ,■/""