River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-07-02
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p ClTCull court, Judges Miller ana Nell
son presiding, at st. Paul, Minnesota,
on the Oath instant. The case was
originally instituted in the District Court
of Scott county Minnesota; but was on
application Of defendants, who are citi-
zens Of Philadelphia, removed to the
court before which it was tried. The
right of removal being indubitable under
the law, no objection was made on the
part of the plaintiff, further than tina. the
costs of the suit would necessarily be
greatly enhanced thereby, while at the
same time it was alleged that the real
cause of the removal was the fact that
public sentiment in that county was
largely in favor of the plaintiff.
THE PARTIES.
The parties to the suit are Geo. Giles,
plaintiff and Ann Main and husband Of
Philadelphia, defendants. The plaintiff
is the son of A. p. Giles, Esq, OF Belle
Plaine, Scott county, who is the brother
of Hon. VIM. F. ttiles, Judge Of the U.
). District Court of Baltimore, and is
consequently connected with one of the
oldest and most aristOcratic fami-
lies of the Monumental City.
He has also connections in
this city of the highest responsibility and
character-being the nephew of Mrs
Smith, the wife of the wellknOwn physl-
clan, DIR. f. r. Smith He came to this
State in 1868, from Virginia, and settled
near Belle Plaine, on farm which he
purchased and which he cultivated with
considerable success. The defendants,
who are the plaintiffs father and mother
in.law, are wealthy Philadelphans, with
the blue blood Of the Quaker City crcling
in their veins.
1t appears from the testimony offered
thst the defendants came to Belle
PLANE in 1869 and took up their resi-
dence for brief period, bringing with
them their daughter, Ann R., then a
beautiful and accomplished young lady
of 20 wears, with taste for the fine arts,
and drawing and painting in particular.
With these accomplishments and the
glamour Of wealth with which she was
surrounded,al the aristocracy Of the coun-
try village were soon at her feet with pro-
testations of undying love and affection,
and giving promise.of prosperous voyage
through life with flowing sails. OF all
the ardent SWANS who courted and fiat
tered her, the plaintiff, " no at that time
was some 20 or % years of age, and a
man of high order of intelligence and
very considerable culture, was the chosen
one, and they became engaged, with her
| parents consent, and with every possible
indication of happy future. The nuptials
were afterwards cOnsummated at Phila-
delphia, and, as plaintiff alleges,
/ for year thereafter and after
their return to their home near Belle
Plaine their cup of happiness was full to
the brim and running over. They we're
/ living in comfortable home and with all
the surroundings OF cosy independence if
not actual wealth, when the mother-in.
law entered the Eden Of their home, on
the plea of heing present ana assisting at
her daughter first confinement which
occurred in February, 1871. Previous to
/ this their life had been one Of unbroken
happiness, nor did any serious difference
occur at this period to break the
4 prevailing harmony. During the sum
mer of 1871 after the daughters recov-
cry, she with her parents visited their
home in Philadelphia, whittier the new
son.in-law hied himself away and spent
some time with them at their residence.
In the fall of that year the wife land her
parents returned to the husband home
at Belle Plaine and the whole party took
up their permanent residence. Then
commenced the caange. Their hitherto
prevailing harmony was broken, and as
the result is fully detailed in the evidence
we need not further allude to it. The
whole affair appears to be medley of
matrimony, mother-in.law, medicine, pol
itics and religion principally mother-in-
law.
The plaintiff being Southerner by
imbued with those principles which birth
reigned supreme in that section, and
which eliminated in the recent unhappy
war, of course received no sympathy,and
not even liberation from his mother.in.
law, who was Of the sluest political stripe.
which would do no dscr, dit TO the most
hide hound descendant Of Jonathan
Edwards or Cotton Mather. The wide
domain of the State, let alone the mar.
row confines of an ordinary dwelling,
were, of course, unable TO
contain and keep in har.
mony two such discordant elements.
In religion they came no nearer together.
The irrepreSsible mother.in.law was a
true blue Presbyterian, after lin the
words Of Paul. the most straightest sect
Of her religion, while the son.in'law was
an Episcopalian, and prided himself upon
the liberality Of his opinions. Nor did
they agree upon the question Of physic--
the lady being homcopathist and dep.
rccating everything belonging to the reg.
ular school, while plaintiff based all his
hopes OF cure for sublunary ills upon the
theories and practice Of the regular disci.
pies OF Galen.
One Of the complications Of the mys.
FERROUS affair the insanity Of the father.
n.law who has been in an asylum since
his wife (the mother.in-law) took her
daughter away from Belle PLANE.
The suit was brought for entcing
plaintiffs wife away FROM her home,
preventing her return, alternating her az.
icctionS from him, deprivius him Of her
society aud refusing him an communica.
ton with her during her enforced absence,
and the damages ave laid az So, 900. Hon.
J. l.. Macdonald and Morris Lamprey