The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-22
GIRL U|FE LOSES HER SUIT.
MRS kEALf FAILS To MrrrT HER
AoTHER-IS-LAw FOR DAMAGES.
S0nrt Holds That Evidene~ Did Vet
show Hsshana's Affections Were
AlieHatea Threagh Maternal Ia
4uence Non-Snfs In Granted

Pretty bsaek-eved Mari Rsaly. not set
'xrne1 r. yesterday lost before Jesfg.
f@rh55 or1s ~ she most peculiar damage
suits ever tried IN sfs saasrsos cnurt.
kgAlg against keaiy.' announced IRE
halfr wa%n conrt of-eued ard ire docket
OF he day was sailed Tnsn D gan the
trial - MARY Eeaiyss salt against re-
rtcfher-fn-Eaw sarah A. kea2x. for ts.5Ss
damages by tE@ alleged alienation 81 "a
husbands affections For MARY Keasy
for more than year haa tcsn wife ard
IL now neither, ,ha;-E she cial1s tssat
not since her marriage has Sc erloSsd
IRE society Of her nusoant ard been Ne
recipient Of his love. For This a1hap py
condition Of affairs she holds ne- has
bands mother IN blame. and II was $50
that ground that she asked damages.
AT. the parties 10 rse SUIT live r. bsnss-r1-
elaw. in the southern part ~ the county.
ard q large delegation % citizens 81 that
town were present "a cnur- as witnesses
ard spectators But Ehsy wso would
have testified against TIE girl wiz gsEs
never called 70 the sta : l. far the es's-s,
after hearing the testimony r. heT her4af
ruled that the ailesa-i afsa ~ tNe Younger
Mrs. Kealy that her husg1usf's coi5ness
ard Aes~rilen were iSe results az mater
nal influence arss Inys.-tersn . we're net
sustained by tse evia n - sna granted a
motion % the elder Mxs kealf faw Z Hon
suis and dismissal ~ lha case
I. Developed suri-g ~ trial that ths
marriage et young Mrs Kealy 10 her sus-
bard James. who - aiTnseif b1st seg
not yet Y. was enters. l,ate ~ the latter
in order 70 bar 3 pr3sscfgfi9n Eor The a.
legged betrayal u the girl. who had :nr
Some time prevf sus Eeeea living IN his
mothers family as a domestic. Mrs. ksa-
u has ? farm ~ EnuTcis y aud also owDs
a hotel there. THE tso you're people acre
both employed a5ae1 the premises and
we're THROWN uees In the society OF one
another.
Young Mrs r .aiy took the stand 10 i<s-
;ifv that Until uar nssrrsagN her hstssaf.d
ard her husband mother nal treated her
with kindness and considera ti,sn. bUE thp
after the maria ~ the HlofgPr sessS y ssss-
lent dislike 20 her and he~ husband aisc
turned against her The a-ifs Of Mra
keaEy's testimony was "a show that ,he
mothers Influence hal been strong
enough ~ aet AZ naught the marriage
bonds hui abe wns nos allowed To testify
SO directly
F37e other witnesses for IRE piainsffy were
also prevented from ,estlfyinE as 10 their
opinions concerning the causes ~ the
young HUSBANDS sesevti0n though they
were allowed 10 tsit II conversations in
which Mrs. Eealy was quoted az saying
;has she would spend every dollar she had
rather tran Jim and Name" live to-
gesneT
The court he's that such testimony did
not prove direct influence. and that the
damage suit must fall
MRS. keaiy sr Is looking ell
derl% woman Her attorneys say that they
were prepared - prove had II become nee
esEary. that she had not only no, .ndaccd
her son 70 desert his wife bat bad on the
contrary urged him TO make the best Of
bad bargain" and 1--we wl,h her.