UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22195, 23 August 1935, Page 14

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES

DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS PETITIONS NOT DEFENDED Two undefended petitions in divorce were heard before Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court yesterday. In one case the petitioner was Jennie Isabel Ethel Walhy (Mr. Rose), who sought a divorce from Harold Freeman Walby (Mr. A. Moody), on tho ground of separation by mutual consent. Tho respondent filed an answer denying separation by consent, but alleging defertion. Mr. Rose said that as an important witness was unable to travel fro™ Napier to Auckland owing to illness, be would offer uo evidence in support of the petition. Mr. Moody was then granted permission to proceed on the cross-petition alleging desertion on the part of the wife. _ ... Tho respondent, in evidence, said a® married tho petitioner on January 11» 1929, at Auckland. There was one child. Ho went to Mount Albert to make a home, while his wife took the child and went -to live with her parents. Subsequently she refused to live witn him. , A decree nisi was granted to tne husband. No order was made for the custody of tho child. A petition in divorce based upon an agreement to separate was bioup.it b.T Mavis Marv Cooper (Mr. Noble) apa ins James Bailey Cooper. Evidence was given by the petitioner that the par* ties woro married in Auckland on J' l ■? 81, 1929, and lived together at -her parents' homo until September, Her husband failed to provide her witn a homo of their own, and they to separate. Ho had not contribute toward her maintenance since. _ There were no children. A decree nisi was granted the petitioner.