A PLUMBER'S WIFE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 865, 17 November 1916, Page 9

A PLUMBER'S WIFE.

DECREE NISI GRANTED. At the Supreme Court yesterday the hearing of the divorce case Lou* don v. Loudon, a husband's petition for divorce on the grounds of adultery, was continued. The co-respon-dent was George Lewis. The respondent, continuing her evidence, said that Loudon had promised to take her to the trots, but afterwards refused, so she asked Lewis to take her. On the last day she and Lewis did not leave before the last race. She denied the allegation in the petition. She was 22 years of age, and her husband 25. Caroline M. Tulloch, sister of the respondent, gave evidence as to having been in the company of Lewis and Mrs Loudon at New Brighton on January 2. She had also heard Loudon refer to Mrs Loudon as Lewis's wife. This closed the respondent's case.

! I Mr Alpers said that the respondent | ! appeared to be a flighty little woman. | The co-respondent would deny im-| J proper conduct. The respondent apparently liked, with a certain egre-, jgious vanity of her own, to have men 'j dangling after her. | George Lewis, the co-respondent,; ! said he was 24 years of age, and was j employed on a station. He had! ; known Mrs Loudon for many years. ! He stayed at Loudon's house for a | week at Loudon's invitation. His! 'meeting with Mrs Loudon in Latimer i j Square was quite accidental. He 11 never had walked arm-in-arm with | the respondent. | Mr Cassidy cross-examined the co- j 'respondent to show that the cause! of the family dissension had been ! j Lewis's consistent attentions to Mrs 'Loudon. I His Honour, in giving judgment, said that the only reasonable con-; '■ elusion that could be arrived at from ! the evidence and from the letters and telegrams produced, was that a guilty (intimacy existed between the responident and the co-respondent. It was

also reasonably clear that the explanation of the New Brighton incident was not satisfactory. All the evidence went to show that misconduct had occurred. A decree nisi was granted, with leave to apply for it to be made absolute in three months. The respondent was allowed costs on the lowest scale (these having been deposited by the petitioner). All costs, on the lowest scale (including the respondent's) will be borne by the corespondent, disbursements and witnesses' expenses to be fixed by the registrar.