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Husband Loses
Divorce Case
At Newcastle Divorce Court yes
terday, Mr. Justice Bonney. dis
missed the husband's peluton in
the part heard case in wluch Henry
ilowell Green, known as Sullivan,
bus conductor, of George-street,
Mayfield, sought divorce from
Myrtle Mavis Green, known as
Sullivan, formerly French, ot
W\Vootton, near Bulahdelah, on the
ground of desertion.
The Judge found the facts
proved in Mrs. Green's counter pe
tition for divorce on the ground ol
constructive descrtien, and granted
a decree nisi.
His Honor said he came to the
conclusion that Green was an un
:rustworthy witness and that Mrs.
Green was substantially trustworthy.
Green, recalled, said that once,
because his wife refused to stay
at home, he had to take the child
to work w'ith him on the tram
and keep it there until he finished
work.
-A few weeks before his wife
left him, Green added, he wanted
to go to a union meeting. His
wife objected and smeared ointment
over his clothes. He pushed her
away. In falling, she struck her
head against a loughboy and
claimed that he hIad knocked her out.
Twice his wife threatened to com
mit suicide. He denied any famili
arity with a girl, whom his wife
objected to his taking home from
work late at night.
Mlr. J. Braund (instructed by
Messrs. Johnson and McDonald)
appeared for Green; Mr. J. M.
Williams for Mrs. Green.
MASTIN v. MASTIN
A decree nisi was granted in the
ptart hIeard petition in which George
Robert Mastin, fitter and .turner,
of Lewis-street, Maryville, asked
for divorce from Muriel May Mas
tin, formerly Glceson, of Hartley
street, Lambton, on the ground of
her adulters with Wally Newson,
butcher, of Hartley-street, Lambton,
between April 18 and June 14, last
year. Newson was ordered to pay
the costs.
Mr. J. Braund (instructed by
Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill)
appeared for Mastin.
EASON v. EASON
Desertion was the ground on
which John George Eason, licensee
of the Dungowan Hotel, Dun
gowan, near Tamworth, was
granted a decree nisi against Ivy
Eason, formerly Purslow, of St.
James-road, New Lambton. Eason
said that, with his wife and Mrs.
Mary Martin and her husband, he
took over the management of the
Northumberland Hotel, Lambton,
in 1943. Mrs. Martin put money
into the venture. In the following
December, his wife said she did not
want him or the hotel and left.
In 1946, she failed in a petition
accusing him of adultery.
Mr. L. C. Furnell (instructed by
Mr. J. Ruggero) appeared for
Eason.
TO-DAY'S CASES
9.30 a.m.: M. Hungerford v. I.
V. Hungerford; J. P. O'Brien v.
A. C. O'Brien, Rutherford co-re
spondent; J. A. Davidson v. N. G.
Davidson, Woodbridge co-respon
dent.,
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