SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24606, 14 May 1941, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

DIVORCE AND BANKRUPTCY A sitting of the Supreme Court was held yesterday morning before Mr Justice Kennedy. Undefended Divorce Decrees nisi, to be made absqlute after the expiration of three months, were granted in the following undefended divorce suits:—William Lewis King Wraight (Mr G. B. P. Wilson) v. Mabel Margaret Wraight, disobedience of an order for the restitution of conjugal rights; Dorothy Mary Dickison (Mr R. L. Fairmaid) v. Joseph: David Dickison; Charles Henry Loekwood Smyth (Mr I. B. Stevenson) v. Elizabeth Ann Smyth, desertion; Gwendoline Mary Wilson (Mr 0. G. Stevens) v. Leslie Arthur Alexander Wilson, separation agreement; Margaret Keen (Mr I. B. Stevenson) v. Alan Keen, separation agreement; Charles Leslie Buddicom (Mr F. C. Dawson) v. Thora Iris Buddicom (Mr R. L. Fairmaid), failure to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights; Horace Slade (Mr C, L. Calvert) v. Jessie Slade, desertion; Stuart Alexander Chisholm (Mr B. S. Irwin v. Elizabeth Chisholm and Oswald Henry Masters Buckman, co-respondent, adultery; Louisa Elizabeth Ann Meek (Mr C. J. L. White) v. Henry Meek, separation agreement; Lindsay Christopher Pike (Mr R. C. Rutherford) v. Naomi May Pike, separation agreement: Margaret Ethel O'Grady '■■■'. (Mr F. W. McElrea) v. Bernard James O'Grady, verbal separation agreement; William Paul (Mr W, F. Forrester) v. Lucy Paul, separation agreement; David Dann (Mr White) v. Annie Laura Dann (Mr F. C. Dawson), desertion. Bankrupt Discharged

A motion for the discharge from bankruptcy of Robert Stanley Paterson, farmer, of Heriot (Mr F. W. McElrea), was granted.

Decision Reserved Olof Wilfred Magnus, carpenter, of Alexandra (Mr F. M. Hanan) applied for discharge from bankruptcy. In the course of his evidence bankrupt said that his wife had bought a car for £470, receiving £240 allowance on a car which she traded in. He was not aware where she received the money to buy the first car or to pay the balance on the second. When the car was sent to garages for repairs the proprietors of the garages were unaware that it was not his own, but his wife's. Those garage charges had not been paid. He had been on relief work for several years, but was now in regular employment with the Public Works Department. Out of his wages he had to maintain a sick wife and three children The official assignee (Mr J. M. Adam) submitted that the bankrupt's attitude towards his creditors in Central Otago had been unsatisfactory, as he could have made some contribution towards the liquidation of his debts during the past three years. Mr Adam asked that he should be ordered to pay the sum of 10s a week to his creditors until the of £IOO was reached, which would amount to a dividend of 5s in the.£. His Honor said he would take time to consider his judgment.