COURT OF APPEAL

Southland Times, Issue 19293, 11 July 1924, Page 6

COURT OF APPEAL

YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS. (Per United Press Association.) WELINGTON, July 10. The Court of Appeal to-day reserved its decision in the case of Barker v. Barker, being a petition for disolution of marriage on the ground of desertion for three years and upwards. It was moved into the Higher Court Yrom Palmerston North by Mr Justice Salmond. Respondent, the wife in this case, lived in the same house as her husband from July, 1920, till February, 1924, but during that time refused intercourse with him. The question for the Court was whether this refusal amounted to desertion. The Court of Appeal suspended Andrew Paterson, of Pukekohe, barrister and solicitor, from practice for one year for professional misconduct. The Court also unanimously dismissed the appeal of Henry Edward Lyons against a sentence of five years’ imprisonment with hard labour, imposed by Mr Justice Adams at Christchurch, for indecent assault on a girl six years of age. The Court adjourned till the first sitting in 1925, the application of the New Zealand Law Society to strike George William McCaul, of Wanganui, off the roll of solicitors for professional misconduct, suspending McCaul in the meantime.