CLAIM BY HUSBAND FAILS
BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE ALLEGED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Twenty-three years ago, John King Brown married Ellen Rebecca Washington. In the Supreme Court to-day Brown sued for an annulment of the marriage, alleging that the woman had been previously married and that when petitioner married her. she had a husband still living. The facts were that the woman had married a man named Webber in 1898. Six months later Webber left her, and later she heard from Webber’s relatives that he was dead. In 1904 she married Brown. In giving evidence, Brown admitted that his wife had sued him for maintenance.
David Webber, brother of respondent's first husband, said he saw his brother at a race meeting in 1904.
Without calling on respondent, the judge dismissed the case on the ground that the evidence of Webber was unsatisfactory and unreliable, and it failed to prove petitioner's case.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1927, Page 7
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