Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-07

campaigning their parents on proposed
trip 10 Balt Lake City. The father and
mother belonged 10 the Mormon iaiih
aud were anxious to live with tue
Latief.dny Saints. The girls decided
10 run away rather thAn 20 where
they would be expected 10 join IN mar.
riaFe some venerable Saint whose
huu.ehUlI was already Ovetfun with
wives. rhuy carried nut their iuion.
u0us. Euza married j. seph Milan, n
nsighb9r, who had been her admifoT
Tor SONS time. The ceremony was
REFORMED ia the usual way, a. che
thought. Ton days lalHr shs discpv-
cred, As chs substqutnty declared,
at the marriage was not genuine. In
other wufis, she claimed To have been
tue victim OF y m. OK marriage. one
l.ft Milan Immediately,
Whpu sAe married Hunter i've yCars
later she tslaicI tlis story, Tut led him
" believe that Milan was drsi. Aiiet
thuy had lived together fJf twenty
years, M Ia the mainline hni been
sccumuiatinr gu.trR fortune, Huniet
Learned thHt MtHm was u0t dead.
Here was a pretty hDw-Ic.dO. Huutsf
was not sure whether uo Lad = vic OF
not A. the same lime his ragu and
obAgfin krow NO bounds
Hunter lott bic Uvef.marfied comra.
uiou anu shortly aitefwar1 instituted
ptUut0liuUs lni L0sAugel's to have the
marriage Bnuulled. NJ tho same time
the woman began nn action Tor divorce
from Milan. She had no difficulty In
securing IT, tor Milan d ii not tpl ear
10 dispute her pfsyof. Ihc next move
was ~ reply 10 Hunters suit 5hv al.
United In court that "A marfiRgs ceto.
m1ny nAI been reformed between her
sud Milan Ia 1868, but declared thai
ghat ceremony was inv,lii by reason
90 tln tact that the supposed pltspu v lao
tied tho nuutial knot wns su iWp alur.
Further tIau this, she said she wis but
10 yrsIa % Agu whUn thu thought sue
marfira Milan, and hal not secured
tue consent - her psfeuls. Boobies,
nJ,mAftiago license hal been obtained.
Ion uays after the uDs ~ marriage, she
AyuftuC, sic disupyUfrd inst shU hal
t.Eu dupuu, and stfais hIway went
uaCk ~ htT Iarrnis she never saw
Milan again ald believed him dead.
Several yeats aitsfwHrd-when the
Milan marriage had been iUfgottoI-
she met anu WAS welded to Hunter,
believing that she was fret. she set
forth further That the two lived hspIiiy
together until Milan, ike Enoch a..
deu, came back 10 life.
The wUmau's defense In the Los
Angeles superior court. after alleging
the Elegantly ~ her httt marriage,
was that Hunter, In COhabiting with
her tor twenty years haI no fights In
coutt through the operation Of the
statute Of Imitation, This court de-
oiled IN her favor. Hunter apl eslru
from tho decision.
The supreme court now comes 70
Hunters fotcue with an order giant.
Ing him new trial Commissioner
Ssafles, VINO dTow up the decision,
sAys that tue fact that n marriage cefe-
mnuy was performed la tbis state m
1903 by n person not authorized would
not ia itself invalidatu tue marriage II
assenied 10 by the parties sHd con-
summated by their living together As
husband and wife. In this state no
license was required m 1858 asa PFC.
requisite to marriage. Fuurtsen ycap
was tho age VI legal consent Ia that
year.
although says the commissioner,
"lhe marriage act OF 1850 made It q
misdemesnot for any psfson TO unite
In marriage any male under twenty.
one years Of age or any female under
eighteen without the parents consent,
yet n marriage go performed wins not
void except Ia cases where the female
was unuot the age OF fourteen Year,"