Petitioner Who Denied Being Present at his Own Wedding An interesting divorce case which a returned student, Kao Pang-yun, son of Kao Vong- sz, former managing director of the Commercial Press, Ld. was petitioner, was heard at the Mixed Court on Thursday by Mr. A. J. Martin (British Assessor) and Mr. Yui Ying-vong (Chinese Magistrate), petitioner praying for an annulment of a marriage with Wo Kwei-ying.
Messrs, R. Haskell and 8. A. Moss appeared for petitioner; Mr. L. G. Husar and Mr. Y. W. Char for respondent; and Mr, A. Y. Ting watched proceedings on behalf of the petitioner's father.
CONTRADICTORY ALLEGATIONS, The petition showed that "'on er about Deceniver 1, 1922, the father of petitioner... held a marriage ceremony, by which ceremony the petitioner was purported to have been married to one Wo Kwei-ying, and that the father of the said petitioner has since the said date held out the said Wo Kwei-ying to be the wife of the said petitioner and has treated the said party as_his lawful daughter-in-law." Further that "the petitioner has at no time consented to be united in marriage with the said Wo Kwei-ying and did not, as a matter of
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