WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20961, 26 August 1931, Page 11

WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE.

HUSBAND'S PETITION FAILS. COMMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION,] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Holding that in law the husband's conduct had induced his wife's adulter}', the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court to-day refused a petition for divorce by Tom Asher against Maata Asher, of Greytown, but granted Mrs. Asher a* divorce on a cross-petition. The jury had held that allegations of adultery had been proved against the petitioner, the respondent and the co-respondent, Russel Elliott, of Greytown. His Honor said lie thought the case a bad and disreputable one so far as the co-respondent was concerned. In His Honor's opinion co-respondent had deliberately taken advantage of his knowledge of the relationship between petitioner and respondent, and,, but for his intervention, the wretched business relating to the marital relations between the petitioner and respondent would not have come before the Court. In his opinion the case was one in which the corespondent should be condemned in costs. Petitioner was ordered to pay his wife s costs. Co-respondent was ordered to indemnify Asher for what he had to pay on behalf of his wife, and also to pay petitioner's costs.