BRITISH DIVORCE LAW
MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE. HOTEL BILL OF HUSBAND. London, May 12. A hotel bill, which was produced in evidence in a divorce case, recoiled on the head of Evan Preston—who had proved his wife’s prolonged misconduct—and compelled him to admit that he had previously supplied his wife with the hotel bill to enable her to divorce him. He asked the Judge to forgive his offence. Mr Justice Hill said that Preston’s socalled misconduct was “one of these idiotic cases where evidence is manufactured on purpose for a divorce.” Preston had been entitled to a divorce for years, he said. He did not wish to be hard, so he granted the decreee. '
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Southland Times, Issue 20496, 26 May 1928, Page 21 (Supplement)
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