Tuesday before his Honour Judge Sir Peter Grain, Ernest Bertram Claude Reimer appeared and asked fora dissolution of his_marriage with Mary Reimer, naming P. Ser-"kanin as ce-respondent, appears that Mrs, Reimer obtained a divorce from her husband in November, 1924, granted to her by the Harbin Diocesan Council of the Russian Ecclesiastical Court of Harbin, In February, 1925, she went through a form of marriage with Mr. P, Sorvanin, a French citizen, and a daughter at the time was born in May, 1927, of that union, Mr. Reimer was under the Ampression that everything was in order; asa matter of fact so was Mrs, Reimer and Mr, Servanin, not realizing that a Russian divorce can have no legal effect on a British subject.
Mr, J, E, Badeley represented the prepared to believe the oath of the petitioner that he intended the place in question to be his permanent Lordship said that, in view of this case, he would rule that the petitioner had acquired in Shanghaj domicile and granted a decree Mr. Badeley applied to his Lord-to exercise his discretion and shorten the usual period of six months before the decree could be made absolute, because it was a very clear case and it was not necessary, really, for the King's Proctor to have six months in which to make is_ investigations.
His Lordship granted him permission to renew the application to this effect on giving notice to the Crown Advocate at a later date.
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