The Weekly Law Reports
[1957] 3 WLR 34
[PROBATE, ETC., DIVISION.]
DAVIES
v.
DAVIES.
1957 May 2,
3.
Lord Merriman P., Wallington J.
Husband and Wife
— Justices
— Refusal to adjudicate
— Appeal
— Jurisdiction of High Court
— Wife's complaint of persistent cruelty, desertion for less than three years and wilful neglect to maintain
— Refusal to adjudicate on ground that all matters more conveniently dealt with in High Court
— Power of justices to divide matters and refer in part to High Court
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Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), ss. 10 and 11.