SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11850, 5 June 1919, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Jane 5. This morning in the Supreme Court it was "announced that the divorce case. Albert E. O. W. Brooks v. Cecilia Myrtle Brooks and Donald McKenzie, in which the petitioner claimed £4OOO damages, had been settled, co-respondent consenting to the verdict of the jury for £1250 damages with costs. The Chief Justice explained to the jury that the money would not go to the petitioner, ‘but be set aside for the benefit of the children, and, possibly, the wife. Repljdng to counsel, the Judge said respondent, as well as petitioner, was entitled to costs. The jury returned a formal verdict for £1205 and costs.