AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16845, 22 September 1922, Page 7

AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.

T ELDERLY COUPLE’S DIVORCE. “ A JUDICIAL CLASSIC.” (Pkr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 21. Sir John Salmond gave judgment in the divorce ‘case of Lodder v. 1/odder, which is akin to the well known Mason case, and promises like it to rank as a judicial classic. The marriage took place as far back as ISB2, the husband now being sixty-five years old. and the wife tixty-two. Since 1908 they had lived kpart, one here and the other in Auckland. The immediate cause of separation was the objection taken by’ the wife to the husband’s friendship with another woman, but adultery was not alleged or* proved, nor was any other recognised form of matrimonial offence. The Judge found .that the husband did give, cause for jealousy, and was in fact the immediate and effective cause of the separation, but the law as amended in consequence of the ■Mason case still gave discretion to the Judge, and in exercise of this discretion .Sir John Salmond held that there was no reason to refuse the dissolution of the marriage, for it was evident that its continuance would serve no useful purpose, either in the interest of tho public, or of the parties themselves.