Parnham v Parnham [1911] ZAWLD 34 (3 August 1911)

Husband and Wife - Divorce - Evidence - Adultery - Woman living in House of ill fame

Where a married woman was proved to have lived in a house of ill fame with other women who were prostitutes, and not to have been the manageress thereof:

Held that, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, those facts were sufficient proof of the commission by her of adultery, to entitle her husband to a decree of divorce. (Lapworth vs. Lapworth, 6 E.D.C. 48 ; McDougall vs. McDougall, 1908, E.D.C. 455, :followed.)