DIVORCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8844, 21 June 1907, Page 3

DIVORCE.

Press Association. W El/LTngton/Juno 20. Mr Justice Button and a jury of twelve wore engaged to-day hearing the divorce suit of Johnson v. Johnson and Benge. Petitioner, James Johnson, a, platelayer employed on the Government railways, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Sarah Jane Johnson (formerly Sarah Jane Bobin■sini) on the ground of misconduct with one Edward Benge, a farmer residing at the Upper Hutt. Petitioner claimed £5Ol damages from co-respondent. The charge vi impropriety upon which the petitioner relied was alleged to have taken place on UUh January last at Upper Hutt. Crossexamination of petitioner’s witnesses was directed to showing that petitioner had had monetary dealings with co-respondent in regard to. purchases of stock, and had lined io overlook the wrong that had boon done to him in the matter of co-respondent’s relationship with respondent on payment to petitioner by co-respondent of £275. The case tor (ho co-respondent is in every respect a denial of all the more serious and material allegations of petitioner and a denial that any incriminatory admissions had been made in the matter. The case stands part