The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-11
IN AND ABOUT THE COURTS
MRS. PAULINE FECHNER GRANTED
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p.rior Court Judgments Handed Down by Judge Eimer-Student Wtchs 8 Fined-Bicycle Dealer Sued by Minor City Court Cases.

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 City Court Cases.
 Mrs. Pauline Fechner, wife of Ernest Fechner, proprietor of the Russian and Turkish baths at 1SS York street, was granted a decree of divorce by Judge Elmer in the superior court yesterday afternoon. The decree was petitioned | for on the grounds of infidelity and habitual incompetence, and though both were proven Lawyer Edmund Zacher, who represented Mrs. Fechner, asked that the decree be entered only for the second reason.
 Mrs. Fechner testified that the core spondent named is well known wo- man of the town. The evidence was directed wholly to the night of May 1 last. Upon the discovery, Fechner fled from his wife and she has not seen him since. She testified that she had in formation to the effect that he was in South Wndham.
 The petitioner told Judge Elmer that she was married in England about thir- teen years ago, and after living there for five years they came to this coun- try. They lived in New York five years prior to coming to New Haven two or more years ago. Her husband S right name, she said, was Ernest Gros- jean, but he assumed the name of Fechner her maiden name, when they came to this country The petition was applied for under the name of Gros- jean. The custody of their clever year old daughter, Charlotte, was awarded to the mother, with the right to assume her maiden name.
 A decree was also granted yesterday afternoon to Burton H. French, of this city, from Emma Smith French on the grounds of infdelity. Lawyer J. P. Thomson appeared for the petitioner.
 SUPERIOR COURT JUDGMENTS. Judge Elmer in the short calendar session of the superior court yesterday granted the petition of the New Haven Trust company, receiver for the Con necticut Life Insurance company, for an order to call in subscriptions to the capital stock of the company.
 The petition is for the purpose of re- covering upon number of subscrip- tions to the stock which have not been paid. White & Daggett attorneys for the receiver claimed that the order was necessary to offset a claim by the subscribers that the stock was illegally issued.
 A number of suits have already been instituted against the subscribers, one in which D. F. Fitzpatrick of Water bury is defendant, have reached stake that disclosed the line of defense. MT. Fitzpatrick alleges that the stock issue was fraudulent and illegal, and there fore he obtained no consideration for ha note.
 Judgment of non-suit was granted by Judge Elmer in the suit brought by John Fl. Murfree and wife of Milford against John H. Futile and wife of the same town. The court ordered the plaintiffs to file bond, which they failed to do, and judgment was rem dered for non compliance. The suit was brought on the common counts to recover S5,000.
 Judge Elmer also rendered judgment in accordance with the decision of the supreme court in the cases of the New Haven Steam Saw Mill and Cannon vs. the city of New Haven. The amount of the judgment is 5000, to be paid jointly by the city and the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad.