COOK v. COOK.

NZ Truth, Issue 692, 21 September 1918, Page 6

COOK v. COOK.

- A Soldier BHpped. The second case came before Mr. Justice Stringer , last Saturday, when it was a male member that was the injured -party. John Smith Cook, a cabinetmaker, had a dip m the matri- ! monial bag on December 3, 1915, and j though he drew. out Annie Maud Cook, i he could be safely described as having I drawn a blank. The plaintiff's story •was 1 that they did not cohabit. on the i wedding night, and m the morning i John had to leave on active service, j and when • he returned twelve months' • later there was no Mrs. Cook to give I him a welcome home. He sent invitai tions out to his other half, but she DECLINED TO BE PAIRED. Then came a shock. He discovered that -the woman he had married one day and left the next had given, birth to a child m his absence, and' as it was, under the strange circumstances of their married life, impossible to have been the petitioner's child, he had no alternative but to regard it as illegitimate and make it the basis of the ground for divorce. The court, after ! listening to the story told by Cook i and his counsel. (Mr. Hall-Skelton), [ granted a decree nisi.