The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-26
Marriage to a step-Grandson Legal.

Interesting family relations that gave
rise to an interesting law point have just
been brought to the notice of Vice Chan
cellor Van Fleet. When Mrs. Ann Boy
Ian, of New Brunswick, married William
Boylan ONE years ago, he was a widower
with a grandson. She had two IN by
him. During his life he gave her a little
property, to hold only so long after his
death as she might remain unmarried.
When she had been Widow Boylan for
a few years she married her husbands
grandson by his first marriage.
She rented her property to George Dein-
ger. Her sons commenced suit to compel
DeinZer to pay his rents to them. Their
claim was that by marrying her step
grandson, their mother had lost her title
TO the property. Deinzer answered with
the plea that the widows marriage to the
step-grandson was void in law, that it
was as though it had never been per-
formed, and that the title to the property
is still the widows.
The Vice Chancellor has just held that
a marriage between a man and a woman
related within the degree prohibited by
law is not void, but voidable and until dis
solved by a court OF competent jurisdic-
ton must, in all collateral proceedings,
be treated as valid. The statute concern
ing marriages declares that nc man and
woman shall intermarry who are related
to each other within the degrees therein
after specified, and then in specifying the
degrees the statute says that no man shall
marry his grandfather's wife,
and that no Woman shall marry
her husbands daughters son or
her husbands sons sou. But this
statute gues no further. 1t does not de-
clare that if a man and who are
related within the prohibited degrees.
marry, this marriage shall be void. On
the contrary, the statute concerning di-
yorceS declares that q divorce from the
bond of matrimony may be decreed iii
case the parties are related within the de-
grees prohibited by law, but that the SEN
tence or decree in such q case shall not
render the issue of such marriage illegiti-
mate. So the Vice Chancellor holds that
Mrs. Boylan's sons are entitled to the
profits Of their fathers estate, and re-
quests her to account to them.
DIR. Gedicke in Trouble Again.
Newark is being treated to a new sensa.
tion in which DR.. Herman w. Gedicke,
who has already been in innumerable
woman scrapes there, figures. Early in
July a well dressed lady, about twenty.
six years old, called at No. ~ Morris and
Essex Railroad avenue, and left a boy in.
FAINT nine months old with Mrs. Radcliffe
and her sister, Jane Thompson, who
Keeps q mouse lOF DOdTuluS lulantS. line
woman did not leave her name, as is Gus
tomary, but paid $3.50, the price de
manded for a weeks board. She also left
a bottle of cordial, instructing Mrs
Radcliffe to give the baby a t%easpoonfu'
three times a day. But Mrs. Radcliffe die
not give the cordial, as she said she wa,
afraid 1t might kill the infant.
The next night the same lady drove up
to Mrs. Ratcliffe's door in a coupe, witt
the curtains all down. She was accom-
panied by her sister, who, Mrs. Radcliffe
says, was remarkably handsome and
dressed in a rich decollete evening dress
Mrs. Radcliffe requested that the mothel
of the infant leave her name and addres.
that she might know where to find her
This, however, was not complied with
That was the last Mrs. Radcliffe saw o
the two women.
On Tuesday night, July 16, Mrs. Rat
cliffe called at Superintendent Yatman'.
and told her story, and on Wednesday
morning the story was first published
When the lady who left the infant saw
the story in print she Immediately went
to Superintendent Yatman in a highly ex
cited state of mind and told her story.
The baby died on Saturday and through