The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16
BUTTE NEWS.
DIVORCE COURT CASES
Judge Lindsay Allows Mrs. CAL
lahan Alimony.
DOES NOT GET THE CHILD
The Court Declines to Interfere With Its
Present Custody-Lizzie Allimandi
Gets Her Decree - Husband
Threw Water on Her.

A few of the faithIess parties to mar
riage contracts were defendants in sew
eral divorce proceedings in the district
court yesterday. In the case of Mon
tca Frey Callahan against Col. Emmett
Callahan, in which motion had been
argued some time ago for an order to
compel the defendant to bring the
minor child within the Jurisdiction of
the court and for additional alimony,
Judge Lindsay yesterday made an or
der allowing the alimony. but declin-
ing to interfere with the custody of
the child at present. In passing on the
matter the court said:
"In view of the fact that the Hon.
Henry c. Smith, presiding as judge
of this department of the district court
during my absence, refused, as l I'M
derstand it, to make an order direct
ing that the minor child of plaintiff
and defendant be brought within the
jurisdiction of the court, pending the
determination of this action, I am not
inclined, for the present at least, to
disturb the ruling so made. With re-
gard to that part of the motion rela-
tive to the allowance of the sum of
$40 per month as wages for a servant
the court will, under the showing made,
grant the request Of the plaintiff. and
order that the defendant pay to the
plaintiff the said sum of money per
month. commencing at the date of this
order, and that he continue to pay to
her, or deposit with the clerk of the
court for her use, said sum monthly,
until the further order of this court.
Il would suggest, however, with ref
serence to the occupancy of the resi-
dence of the plaintiff and defendant
by plaintiff, and the necessary expense
incident to the maintaining of a place
of abode that the order heretofore
made might be modified to the advan-
tage of both parties, by the allowance
to the plaintiff of a stipulated sum per
month as alimony, thereby enabling
the plaintiff to reside where she pleas
ed pending the determination of this
action"
Lizzie Allimandi. who had two suits
for divorce against Antoine Allimandi,
pending in court, was yesterday grant
ed divorce on her last suit. Her tes-
timony was that they were married
in Butte on Jan. 16, 1896, and lived to-
gether only a few months, when her
husband deserted her and has contrib
uted nothing to her support since.
What was not brought out in the tes-
timony was that Allimandi was
miner at the time he married the
plaintiff and that he expected her to
attend faithfully and promptly to his
wants and needs. He came home late
one morning from the night shift and
found his young wife still in bed. He
desired her to get him some breakfast,
but she was slow about getting up. He
waited a while after calling her and
then got a bucket of cold water and
poured it over his sleeping wife. She
then got up and out and kept on going
until she reached her mothers house.
where she remained. She never re-
turned to her husband, and soon there
after he left town.
John j. Sullivan yesterday commence
ed an action for divorce against Han
nah Sullivan on the ground of deser-
ton. According to his complaint they
were married in Butte ON Aug. 8, 1S9-,
pretty long time ago, and that the
defendant deserted him in the same
. year, since which time she has lived
separate and apart from him M. ].
English is attorney for Sullivan.
The plaintiffs motion for alimony in
the divorce case &c Lena Ella Uerne
against Philip Herne was argued be-
fore Judge Lindsay yesterday after
noon and sustained by him. The de-
PENDANT was ordered to pay into court
for the use of his wife $40 a month be-
ginning with the first Of the present
unoHtl, anu W pay Sloo attorney lee
within 10 days. The court declined to
make an order for the payment of 500
for the exepnses of witnesses, but said
that when the case is called for trial
and it then appears necessary he will
make the order.
The hearing of the plaintiffs proofs
in the case of Joseph Merrick against
Clementine Merrick was continued un-
til next Saturday.