SUPREME COURT.
I (BY TBLEGRAVa. ) OHSI9TCHUROH, July 15. At Iho Supremo Court, m banco, this morning, tho case Birrell v. Birrell was heard, an application for an injunction restraining the dofondant who ia the husband of plaintiff, from coming to her house. Defendant was convicted at Timaru for forgery and sentenced lo two years, which are nearly completed. The plaintiff, is a boarding-house keeper on her own property,a.nd stated thnt her boarders would leave if her husband returned. His Honor said that tho defendant wns an elderly man of good character, except ao regarded the frauds committed on his employers. Nothing at all was shown that tho defendant would molest hiß wife. In reality the injunction meant that the caur: be called upon lo pronounoo a judicial separation. If the defendant had no right on the premises, he could bo treated as a trespasser ; if he went there m assertion of his right as h«r husband tho law could not interfere, and the extraordinary remedy of an injunction could not be invoked. 'Tho injunction was refused.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5195, 16 July 1891, Page 3
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176SUPREME COURT. Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5195, 16 July 1891, Page 3
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