DIVORCE COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 7

DIVORCE COURT

HUSBANDS’ PETITIONS

THREE WIVES DEEMED TO BE

UNFAITHFUL,

Several undefended divorce cases wore dealt with by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) yesterday.

LOWER HUTT CASE. Sydney James Hutton petitioned tt> be divorced from Julia, Hutton on tho ground of misconduct. Petitioner said lie was a Lower Hutt butcher. He had three children, had been to the war, and had returned in 1918. Soon after resuming living with his wife he found that he was suffering from a bad disease. He asked his wife to undergo an examination. She refused, and on December 26th left him and took the children with her. Since then she. had sent two of the children back to him. Inquiries ho made convinced him that his wife had misconducted herself in his absence from New Zealand. “SHE HAD ANOTHER MAN.” Samuel Hunt, a fireman on -the Kamo, sought a divorce on -the ground of adultery. Charles Pines was named as the co-respondent. Hunt said that in September, 1910, he married Amy Dolores Roberts. Ho was a seafaring man, and on "his return trips to Wellington .ho always, went to his home. He gave his wife £l2 a month. On one occasion when he went home there were two other women and a man there. His wife told him to get away from 'the house as she had another man. He asked who it was, and she said it was Pines. Louisa Seal deposed that she went to the house where Mrs Hunt lived and found Mrs Hutit and Pines m bed. A decree nisi was granted. UNFAITHFUL WIFE. Thomas Malcolm. McCartney Sought divorce froin Annie Lydia McCartney. The ground was misconduct, and Michael McCrossan was the co-respondent. McCartnev stated that the marriage was in 1908. In 1914 he went to the war. Before he went there had been trouble over the co-respondent. When be returned she did not meet him. Mary Ann Kirkealdie said that m 1918 she engaged as a domestic Mrs McCartney, who said her husband was in camp, and asked if he might bo allowed to visit her in the week-ends. This was permitted and the man came every week-end for four months. She had since seen McCartney, and he was ■not the man who visited her house. A decree nisi was granted.