Read the full judgment text of HCMC 000103/1969 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 November 1970.
1. In this case the wife is the petitioner. The parties were married on 29th July 1965. The petitioner was then 24 years of age and the respondent was 31. There was no evidence as to how long the parties had known each other before marriage; but it is common ground that there was pre-marital sexual intercourse between them. Indeed, I do not think that this marriage would ever have taken place but for the fact that the petitioner was pregnant as a result of such intercourse. The respondent had sa