CONTESTED DIVORCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 16

CONTESTED DIVORCE

SEQUEL TO SEPARATION HUSBAND'S PETITION FAILS v A petition for divorce was heard before Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court yesterday, the petitioner being Peroiyid y Leonard Armitage (Mr. Henry), and the respondent Ella Armitage (Mr. Mackay). Divorce was sought on the ground of separation for three years by agreement, but the petition was contested on the contention that petitioner's conduct had contributed to the separation. In an effort to prove that a deed of separation ihad been entered into through the acta of petitioner, respondent was the first to give «videnoe/

She seated she was married to petitioner in 1915, and there wore three The first time she had trouble with her husband was at Howick, when she spoke to him about another woman. Further describing the events which led to separation, respondent said she had cause to be suspicious of her husband and another woman early in 1931, and she caused her husband to be watched. Petitioner stated that it Itad been thought best-to separate. He bad cause to complain of his wife's attitude a considerable time- before the events' leading. to separation. Petitioner said he had complained to his wife about her alleged association with another man. A woman of whom his wife had complained- was a nurse who had shown him kindness in his illness. His Hbnor said he had no difficulty in coming to a conclusion. If a woman found, her husband under the conditions in which respondent found petitioner, and separation followed immediately afterwards, he bad not the slightest' hesitation in finding that the husband's actions were the cause of the separation. The petition would be dismissed, with costs. " "ITi ', ■