DIVORCE ACTION

Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 61

DIVORCE ACTION

A DISREPUTABLE CASE CO-RESPONDENT CONDEMNED IN COSTS. WELLINGTON, August 25. Holding that, in law, Asher’s conduct induced his wife’s adultery, 'the Chief Justice (Mr Justice Myers) in the Supreme Court - to-day refused the petition for divorce by Tom Asher against Maata Asher, of Greytown, but granted Mrs Asher a divorce on her cross petition. The jury had held that allegations of adultery had been proved against the petitioner, the respondent, and the corespondent, Russel Elliott, of Greytown. His Honor said he thought the case a bad and disreputable one so far as the co-respondent was concerned. In His Honor’s opinion the co-respondent had deliberately taken advantage of his knowledge of the relationship between the petitioner and the respondent, and, but for his intervention, the wretched business relating to the marital relations between the petitioner and the respondent would not have come before the court. In his opinion the case was one in which the co-respondent should be condemned in costs. The petitioner was ordered to pay his wife’s costs. The co-respondent was ordered to indemnify Asher for what he had to pay his wife, and also to pay petitioner's costs...