SUPREME COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11390, 17 May 1915, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

CIVIL SITTINGS.

•' The cnvil sittings of the Supremo j ourt were continued today before Mr 1 Justice Dtennistoii. ' ,The action ""Robinson (Mr Alpen?) v. (•Gorbett (Mr Beswick) wax allowed to \ stand, over m the Meantime. It will -be heard before a special jury. i In "William Woods and Co. v. Jams, [Mr E. T. Harper, for the plaintiff, I said that the claim was for the interest and tho defendant had raised a quesl tion «f accounts on s counter-*aim Und asked that the matter should he i referred to the registrar. Hk Honor ■ referred the matter as requested. i Knight. (Mr R-ow) v. "Wilfred Bad- . j/er (Mr Izard) was adjourned to the ,• n«st sessions. e In Edwin Cuthbort (Mr Alpers) r. Smith and others (Mr Beswict) counsel -"for the defendant said that the ease •demanded a minute examination of. the liooks of Charlca Hill, a solicitor who Jiad absconded. He therefore asked . That the ease should U-- adjourned to ' the next session. Hill was solicitor for both partita to the ea*o and a --areiful examination of the books wr»s required. An adjournment hn- ;iu indefinite period was "ranted. Mr Samuel Thomas (Mr Alper.O r. T,. ' Hopkins (Mr A. T. Donnelly) the hearin a wn* set down for Thursday.

!|f) IKWVORCE. f This Afternoon his Honor held a ,*itipc m Divorce, taking uudeiended LEA'PHE&I v. LEATHEM. In U'-ithem (Mi-Bishop) v. Leathern, (Mr Hunt), counsel ■ for the rospoisd-•-1 t -rated that the respondent hud not W'»n able to file an answer to the petition. Wause he had hod his libertx tnl v .i fifty ar two. t ftie c.i>e waii adjourned for a week. ft ■ iIUDSON v. HUDSON. r * FlixnMih Hudson (Mr Donnelly) apphed ioi a divoree from Thomas Ed- > \ , id llud-om who did not appear. Tin petitioner stated that aboutWiVe \<ais si'ao her husband left her. They had lived in. Christchnrch from the - d.'le (/I their marriage until his depar- . -tun' \ woman, Ivy Mary Day. had Tf hi hoi that she was the mother of a tbild ol which the respondent was the jt-itlni Mrs. Day stated that the re- • sponovmt admitted that lie was the tathet i;id contributed towards the child - support. James Aikman, assistant uulitt a,t the Magistrate's Court-, jifn e iin ilar- evidence. A dec-tec nisi, to he made absolute .m thu'e months, was grant od. ( OULSON v. COULSON. Vmiind CouLson (Mr Donnelly) ptytitwiied ioi a divorce from I'obort \Vil- ,' ham ou the grouud of desertion

T!(o ixditioner said that alter hermarriage she and her husb.md were . connected with the stao;c. There were 'three children of the marriage. Tin.. \ respondent left her in ClirisU-hurch i.u 1 January, 190 S. telling her that she and \ her three child veil were an 'uiremibrance '.to him on the stage. She last -saw ; )iim four years ago, when he was tra'valliug through the Domini■: , .ii on i'ho Fuller circuit. A dfxaee nisi, to be made absoluio in three months, was granted, with an order that the petitioner should have en*tody of the> children. i . PHILLIPS v. PHILLIPS. ! ('aroliue Jane Anna Phillips (Mr Donnelly) applied for a divorce- from Henry Grosvenor Phillips, on the ground of desertion. The petitioner in evidence said that . aJ'ter marriage she. and her husbund ; lived in Halswell aud suhsoqneutly in - Woolstoti. The resnondent left her .on March '-'6 19J0. "She obtained an order from the Magistrate's Court, for --the 'maintenance, of heivelf and child. She had not seen her husband sinecha left lior. LvidoiK'O \i;is also f^iveu !>y MatiUU Lose Buteman and W. A. 1 I>. liankN, clerk of the A.lagistrato's .J"oirrt. Me said that the. maintenance o'iwes were before the Magistrate'.* Court on February ''2i\, IP.IU. A dtei'ee nisi, to be niade. absolute in three months, with the custody of the child, was granted. PARR-KLL v. KAHRKfd.. .Patrick Joseph Farreil (Mr Malley) appiied for a divorce from his wife. Annie 'Elizabeth'Farreil, ou the ground of habitual drunkenness. : The petitioner said tliat he niarricd the re.sp-ondeiit. on February p>, \:\{y.j.. There woi'R three children living, t.lje loungesfc being now five yea.r-s. For fully ~ifc years the re?ppudeat had beet) zri "habitual drunkajd. Sh« had been to Pak'atoa'lsland, and three times in ■the iSalvation Army Home. A decree nisi was granted. • The Court then adjourned until 10.;',o a:ni. on the following day.