New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-20
TOO MUCH FATHER-lN-LAW.
THAT Is WHAT MR.. JOHNSON'S WIFE SAYS.

SIZE WANTS 4 LIMITED DIvoRCE-HER GROUNDS
roR A-KING IT.
4 s,lf for divorce was ,rc before Judge obri'n'
In t.c suprcmr Court yesterday In which the iahc''
in-la,v Of fhc husband figured The cause oil o's-
session instead Of the nothcrin-law. MIS- f'or'"''
4. Jo.nsoa the planW ana "hWo' '"ni'''''
ir the defendant. Mrs Johnson Is at present "Vi's
at snort HIS - J and her husband ana ms 'a'"e'
are stayne nj the Gcrlach In this city. The coupe
were married NJ Morristown. y. j.. on oc'o"r "a
lssl Thcv have two children. one nine ana the
other five wears old Mrs. Johnson was Miss
uorclas, before she was married. Mr.. Johnson i
a lawyer. with Office ut No. ~ Libcrtys'.' anu
member OF the Cnion the Il. Nicholas, the City, 'h'
IT. Anthony and the Fcnc"rs' clubs. lie mas an III
come OF several thousand dollars Il year from inc
cstnt. Of his mother who died In 1eeO. and MIS-
Johnson likewise has IN income Of something over
~. 900 year from property which was beqneath'd
TO her by her mother.
The suit 4 for q nmtci divorce the ground oil
abandonment and Mr.. johnson IS the plaintiff VIII
lam II. AmOuN appeared for her, ana frahhih
bartlett for the defendant While Mrs. johnson was
OH the witness stand she said that she and her husband
had lived at No. 10 Hn-nve. up TO June last, when
she left there and went TO Morristown and snbse-
quen,ly to short Hills Her husbands mother died
I'm January 1890 and the same fall She. her children,
her husband and her iathernla law went to Europe.
They remained there until the following iall. whei
they returned and went to the house I'm Fftliavc
Then she went TO Morrisown and wrote to her nus
band asking what lac intended 10 do number OF
letters which passed between them were then read
by Mr. Arnoux She wrote that she thought they
ought for the sake OF their children either TO live
in the sam. house together ostcnsibly as man ana
sif or 20 away each other that their feeling,
would not he discovered by the outsid" world III"
wrote back that he could agree to arrangement
Of this kind ami that her behavior had caused him
TO come to this conclusion. She had written that
she would never again live in the same house with
his father and he wrote that his father had declared
that he would never again Hive In III" same house
with her In this letter he signed himself your
him for his decision In casting her and her little
ones OF for the man " from whom he had Inherited
dishonor.' Subsequently while under crosscAhmna-
ton she said that she was sorry that sh" hnd ever
used that expression IN her letter. There was con
siderable discussion then about her Income, ana sh"
declared that she received about $1,000 from her
mothers estate She declared that her husband
never supported her until after his mother died
Before that time he ran the stable with his money
and she paid the household expenses.
Mr. johnson was then called aaf h. was asked II
he had ever turned his wife ont OF his house. but
the question was objected 10 and the objection was
upheld lie said that he willing to support MS
children II they would to I've with MIN. but
he unwilling 10 pay their expenses While thcy
were with their mother. lie declared that ,i'T
family expenses had always been than their
Income ana he had been Obliged to borrow money
on his personal estate 10 pas them. Ills incom" &c
testified about 5000 year from The estate
left by his mother. lie had agreed with his mother
TO support his fatncr. and he gave him the Income
OF the house No. Gj1 siNth-nvc Tor that purpose.
The counsel had "a week In which 10 mana IN
briefs, when Judg" Trax will take the case under
con sldnrniiOn