SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1924, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

TARANAKI SESSK )NS. HUSBAND DESERTS WIFE. /Several actions of a minor nature on tne civil list were dealt with by His Honour Mr. Justice MacGregor in the ♦Supreme Court at New Plymouth vesterday. A decree nisi was granted DorothyAnnetta Matson, who petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Frederick Bertie Matson on the grounds of desertion. The petitioner said she was at present living in Stratford. She married the respondent on January ], 1916. On May 11, 1920, she left a situation she had at the Terminus Hotel at New Plymouth. and. in response to a request ficm her husband to join him. she proceeded to Te Koporu, North Auckland. Here she and her husband lived in a lodging-house. She asked him to provide a home for her. but he refused to do so. and a quarrel following they parted. She had seen her husband in Dargaville and in New Plymouth, but had not lived with him. She had supported herself by dress-making. In reply to His Honour the witness said that after refusing to provide a bcme for her at Te Koporu her husband had left and had joined a boat. The decree is to be moved absolute after the expiration of three months. Interim custody of the daughter was given to the petitioner. IN-lURY TO A BOY". Arising out of an accident at the corner of Liardct and Devon Streets about twelve months ago, when a small boy named Horace Burkett was injured by a telegraph pole cross-bar failing on him. a petition of right was made against the Crown, claiming .£351 15s damages. It was announced that a settlement had been reached on the basis of £250 damages, and judgment was entered for this amount, the judge, at the request of the parties, ordering that £156 be paid to the Public Trustee and the balance to rhe boy’s father to defray medical and other expenses. Christopher Carter, the boy’s uncle, was appointed guardian ad litem. OTHER CASES.

A settlement was reached in the action in which Edith Maud Atkins was suing Percy Ward Locker for accounts and possession of chattels in a deceased estate, and the case was struck out. His Honour ordered the application of John Wilkie, painter of Auckland, formerly of Hawera, for his discharge bankruptcy to stand over until the hext session, pending receipt of a further report from the D.O.A. In the action King v. Walsh reported yesterday, the amount -claimed was £137 10s and £-5 damages, not £37 10s anc £-5 damages, as was inadvertently stated in the report. The court will sit again at 10 o’clock this morning.