The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-13
A woMAN's VICTORY.
.ures the Annulment of a pivorce


 Secures the Annulment of Divorce After a Fight Of Twelve Years. After Twelve years of bitter fighting in the courts of two states, Mrs. Georgia L. Everett has won the right to the name she bears. Judge William D. Dickery of the Supreme Court. in Brooklyn, decided yesterday that the annulment of her marriage to Edward Everett of Boston. a grandson of Dr. i Edward Everett, poet snd orator. was obtained by fraud in 1888, and he set ! aside the decree.
 By Judge Dickey's action Mrs. Ever ett is entitled to the name of her hus- band to suppo:t from him and a dover right in his estate. Ehe is now 70 years ola. handsome and cultured. She is a skilifiI rl!llincr. and when she discov- e"ed her husband had their marriage annuiled she refused to accept money from him longer and earned her own living in department store in Hart ford.
 The story revealed in the trial of her case to set aside the annulment began with mock marriage when she was 15 years of age. She was Miss Georgia Hinman of Boston. Among the friends or her girlhood was William C. Nor rison. One day. in June, 1878 there were boat races, and he invited her to accom- pany him on, an excursion to Provi- dence. She went with him, and to- gether they saw the boat races. They stopped for luncheon at the house of a friend of Morrison in Providence. Half dozen young men and women were at the house. Some one suggested that as Miss Hinman and Morrison were the youngest members of the party they should be married. A young man in a black coat stood up and declared that he would be the minister. There was much laughter over the ceremony, in the evening the bride of the mock mar | riage went to her home in Boston and forgot all about the affair.
 Morrison called one day at the house of the girls father and said he wanted his wife. Her mother, very religious woman, satisfied that her daughter was really married, told her she must go with her husband. On the witness stand Mrs. Everett said the life she led with Morrison was miserable for two | months, at the end of which her father took her home.
 She was introduced to Edward Ever cit in 1882 Everett was then law | student. He fell in love with Mrs Nor rison, as she was then called and her house could hardly hold all the flowers he send her. She soon fell in love with him.
 Everett took the young woman to his friend, Judge Rocker of Providence, and on behalf of Mrs. Morrison he be- gan an action against Morrison for di- vorce. According to the testimony Judge Rocker later dropped the divorce suit because he could find nowhere a record of marriage. and believed there had been none.
 Everett said he would give Morrison
 no further chance to insult her. and in- sisted upon an immediate marriage.
 The couple went to Brooklyn, where
 they were married by Judge Courtney.
 Everett did not want the marriage
 made public. Although he lived with i her for years. he did not publicly &C., knowledge her as his wife. He said, he
 wanted to spare the feelings of his ! rison case. Tn the meantime he began the suit for annulment. <. The; decree was signed on April g., ! 1888. The case had been heard before
 Almet ?. Jenks. now judge of the Ap-
 pelate Division, as referee, and Mrs.
 May Bradley Mrs. Everett's sister, testified that she was one of the wit
 nesses and that a lawyer prompted her with his foot under the table as to
 whether her answers to questions should be in the negative or in the affirmative.
 Although his marriage to her was an-
 nulled, Everett continued to live with
 Mrs. Everett until 1891. Then she re- alized what had occurred and began at
 once to fight for restoration of her 1 rights. | Judge Dickey, in the decision he ] handed down yesterday, finds: That the defendant therein, intend-
 ing to mislead the plaintiff, made to the