ACTIONS FOR DIVORCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 14

ACTIONS FOR DIVORCE.

MARRIED ONLY SIX MONTHS.

TRAM CONDUCTOR'S SUIT.

MISCONDUCT OF WIFE.

A number of divorce actions were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Swinger. A marriage that took place only six months ago -was dissolved at the suit of Charles Eobert Chapman, tram conductor (Mr. Singer), who alleged that his wife, Florence Neoma Chapman, had misconducted herself with Lance Norman Buckley, tram motorman. The petitioner said the respondent wag in trouble, and although he denied being responsible, ho married her last August, an arrangement, being mado that they were not to live together. The respondent subsequently sued him for maintenance, but admitted in the Court that on several occasions in October and November sho had committed adultery with the co-respondent. A decree nisi" was granted, with costs against the co-respondent.

OTHER DECREES GRANTED. TWENTY-FOUR YEARS MARRIED. After being married for 24 years, May Edith Hurrell (Mr. Singer) sought a divorce f,rom William Hurrell, laud agent. The petitioner said her husband had been a fairly heavy drinker during tho whole of his married life, but had become «vorse in tho last five vears, and was cruel to her and used offensive language. He used to come home drunk at all hours, as late as six o'clock in the morning. A decree nisi wag granted. Adultery was tho ground of a petition by Esther Cecilia Moore (Mr. Moody) against Stanley Spencer Moore, accountant. It was slated that the parties were married in 1915, and Clint, there was one child. Evidence was given that last September tie respondent and a woman, who was not the petitioner, stayed at a boardini: house in Auckland under _ the name of "Mr. and Mrs. Moore." A deer©? nisi was granted. In thd case of Man' Mitchell Tumor (Mr. Singer) against Neil Smith Turner, it was stated that respondent lost his position as a. railway cnginedriver owing to drunkenness. It was alleged that he committed adultery with a barmaid in October, 1920, since whan the petitioner had not lived with him. The marriage took place in 1903, and there were three children. A decree nisi was granted, subject to an affidavit of search being filed.