The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-26
COURT WAS INQUISITIyE.
Wanted to Know If Plaintiff Didn't
Contemplate MatrimOny.
WANT TO BREAK A WILL.
Petition Filed with That Accomplishment
In view % Several Suits Filed Eor the
Collection of Money and Fore
closure of Mortgages
Court News.

John Fornes came into Judge Nc
Carty's court Wednesday evening pray
ing for a divorce from his spouse, Linda
Forness C. S. Mcdowell represented
the plaintiff and the wife made no con-
test. John is about 40 and he said is
wife is q. He said that Immediately
after he married her she began running
with other men and he said she surely
went with from sixty to eighty before
she finally left him altogether. He
said she would come home from her
jamborees at midnight and he had to
undress her and put her to bed. He de-
clared she was frequently intoxicated
and he had very strong testimony that
she was not true to him.
After the lawyer had gotten Johns
story the court tried few questions
Judge McCarty remembered that he had
once had John in court before on di-
vorce proceeding. That time it was
Johns first wife who wanted a divorce
and her grounds were that he had been
guilty of drunkenness. Further, the
court had an inkling that John was
getting ready to marry another girl
as soon as he got his divorce. The court
had heard that a young lady named
Mary Quinn was the prospective bride.
John denied this. Rather a strange
thing then happened as the next witness
was called On behalf Of the plaintiff.
Her name was Mary Quinn. She made
a good witness against the wife but she
denied that she was to marry John.
She said he never said anything to her
about it, and that he was too old for
her anyway. The court heard the bal
ance Of the witnesses and took the case
under advisement to decide later.
TO BREAK A WILL.
In the suit brought by Susan Harper
and others against Abraham Bowers
and others to break the will of Mary
Bowers attorneys A. a. Thayer and W.
o. WerntZ, for the defense have filed
an answer. The plaintiffs in their petit
ton, say that the will is uncertain in
that it says that if Abraham Bowers
shall at the time of the death of the
testator owe a certain account to the
Central Savings bank then he is to have
only life estate in the property and in
case he does not owe the bank then he
is to have all the property in fee sim
pie. The defense in the suit, in the an
swer, set UP that he did once owe the |
bank but that prior to the death of the |
deceased he went into bankruptcy and |
was declared a bankrupt thereby being |
relieved of all his debts. This being |
true the claim is that he owed the bank |
nothing and so should get full title to |
the property.
AFTER THE BONDSMEN.
Lewis NJ. Finefrock, through his at
torneys, Case, Monnot Whitacre and
has commenced suit in COM ,
mon pleas court to compel the bonds
men of Washington Mckinney as ad-
of the estate of Victor Hal
ter, to pay claim amounting to about
$780, The defendants in the suit are w.
c. Miller. John f. Miller and Lanson
The claim is that Finefrock
was a creditor Of the estate of Victor
Halter to the extent of two notes one
for $43 and another for $44 with interest
from 1893. The plaintiff claims that