DIVORCE TRIAL
A LENGTHY PROCEEDING VERDICT FOR PETITIONER (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON. Last Night. A divorce case which occupied Mr Justice McGregor and a jury in the Supreme Court for a week was concluded to-day, when the jury awarded “he petitioner, Norman Stanley Lawn, a company manager of Wellington, £lOOO damages against George Leonard Reese, a commercial traveller ,of Wellington. The grounds of the petition were alleged acts of adultery by the petitioner’s wife, Eva Lawn, with the corespondent.
? Letfve was reserved to the respondeat and co-respondent to move within 14 days for a new trial. A stay of all proceedings was also allowed pending *hc filing of a motion for a new Trial. Costs on the higher scale, with disbursements, were allowed against the xo-respondent.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 2
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