The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-04-25

been content to delegate TO her grand
mother the entire care of his daughter
from her earliest infancy came forward
resolutely to exercise the stern parental
authority which the law gives him in
order to prevent the marriage of a girl
almost of age with the man of her choice
and who had courted her with the ap-
probation of the relation who stood in
loco PARENTS, and had been throughout
life her best friend. ..f --
M. Baisson went to his mother-in-
laws house, saw his daughter, told her
that he would never give his consent to
the marriage, and moreover, that he
would no longer allow her to live with
her grandmother, and that she must
come away with him directly. The
young lady, in obedience of this parental
command, packed up her trunks and
got into her fathers carriage, which was
waiting. But the carriage had only
gone a few yards when she suddenly
opened the door, at the risk of breaking
her neck, jumped ott into the street,
and ran back to her grandmother's. M.
Baisson thought it undesirable to make
a scene by attempting then and there to
bring his daughter away by force. He
contented himself by saying that he was
infexible, and she would hear from him
in few days When next he went tc
the house ne was informed that the
whole family had gone away, and had
left no address. @
NJ. Bassion went over almost all
Europe in search of his daughters. He
inquired at all the German watering.
places, and at every town in Belgium,
but without any result. At length he
hit upon the experiment of sending a
money letter to the grandmother at her
old address at Paris, and learned
through the post Office, that this letter
was delivered to the very army surgeon
whose pretensions to his eldest daugh.
ter's hand formed the casa,s JeM. He
afterwards found that the two girls were
concealed under false names in Catho
lie convent at Glasgow. Thereupon he
brought action against the mother-in'
law, requiring her to bring the girls
back to France and hand them over tc
his custody. The tribunal of First In.
stance made decree in his favor, and
ordered the young ladies' grandmother
to pay one thousand francs day for two
months unless the girls we're restored tC
their father. She, thinking that the
penalty of this decree would be the
worst of the matter, let the two months
expire, and actually paid the large sun
of sixty thousand francs into the court
a sum that she was prepared to sacrifice
rather. than surrender the girls to theil
obdurate father. But then he brough
a further action, laying the damages a
a million of francs.
an. Desmarest, the lady's counsel
told her that the law was altogether OIL
the fathers side, and that if she did no
give the children up he might 90 oil
bringing actions until he utterly ruined
her. Acting upon NJ. Desmarest's ad
vice, the grandmother has now brough
the young ladies back from Glasgow
The father has gained his point; the,
are now in his custody. The only ques
tion ultimately before the court was
what damages she should pay to the
father for interfering with his authority
The sum, after his counsel, M. julie
Favre, had been heard, was fixed at fiv'
thousand francs, and the balance of tn
sixty thousand francs interest is to b.
refunded to the lady. As matters nov
stand Nile. Baisson cannot marry il
France till twenty five, without he
fathers consent, but in a few month
she will be twenty. one, and then he vii
have no legal right to prevent her fro1
living where she pleases." -:.-