Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-14
MANY ASK DIVORCE
TWENTY-FIVE PETITIONS FOR AN.
NuLMENT OF UNHAPPY
MARRIAGES.
Twenty-Five Law Cases Filed for March
Term of WapeIlo County District
Court Which Opens Monday, March
2o-Many Damage Suits.

Twenty-Five petitions for divorce are
among the forty-seven chancery cases
filed for the March term OF the Wa
pello county district court. twenty
five law cases, including many actions
for damages, have also been filed for
the March term which opens Monday,
March 20, Judge Robert Sloan, OF Keo-
sauqua, presiding, and closes May ~.
The number of divorce cases filed Is
much larger than usual. There are
many sensational charges contained In
the petitions, and nineteen OF the plain
tiffs are women seeking separation
from their husbands. OF the damage
suits one Is against the city and sew
eral against railway companies Fol
lowing is the title of the cases filed
with brief account of each petition:
chancery Cases.
Eria Burton vs. Chas. A. Burton
Petition for divorce Plaintiff alleges
habitual drunkenness and cruel and
inhuman treatment on part Of plaintiff
and asks for custody OF minor child.
Jessie B. Patterson VS.. Ed Batter
son-Petition for divorce, Plaintiff al
leges that defendant is an habitual
drunkard, has associated with women
Of III repute and asks for custody Of
two minor children and temporary
and permanent alimony.
Iuella Courson vs. James M. Cour-
son-Petfton for divorce. Plaintiff &C.
cuses defendant Of desertion and asks
custody OF minor child.
Cloah F. Campbell vs. Ed Campbell
Petition for divorce on grounds Of
desertion. Plaintiff asks custody Of
minor child.
Lena Austin vs. Everett Austin-Pe-
tition for divorce on grounds of deser-
ton and non-support. Plaintiff asks
that her maiden name, Lena Marshall,
he restored.
s. n. Altman vs.. Mary A1lman-Pe-
tition for divorce on grounds OF cruel
and inhuman treatment and desertion.
Plaintiff alleges that soon after mar
rage his wife received letters from
another man urging her to marry him
and that she left plaintiff less than
two weeks after their marriage.
Martha e. Coen VS.. James A. Reeve
and Cora Reeve-Petition for foreclo-
sure on certain described real estate
securing a promissory note on which
plaintiff alleges s548.55 is due.
Effie E. Hopkins VS.. Everett F. Hop
l1ins- Petition for divorce on grounds
of cruel and inhuman treatment. Plain
tiff asks custody Of two minor children.
Bessie Hayden VS.. Frank Hayden
Petition for divorce on grounds Of d.
vorce.
Pierce Rafferty, VS.. Mary v. Rafferty,
Suit for Judgment for $4,000 for fail
IRE Of defendant to comply with terms
of certain contract involving a trans
fer of real estate.
W. L. Harlan VS.. Cary N. Hopkins
ct al-Plaintiff asks for Injunction re-
strainiDg defendants from transferring
certain promissory note for 1920 and
asks that on final hearing on the note
be declared fraudulent, null and void.
]. e. Hull vs. Viola Jones and J. o.
LochSuit for judgment for $20965
on promissory note.
J. w. Gardner ct al VS.. National Coal
B. Mining Co.-Petition to quiet title
to certain described real estate.
]. r. Fulton VS.. M. L. Kirk, Justice
of the peace-Petition for m andamus
ordering defendant to prepare tran
script in assault and battery case in
which plaintiff was the prosecuting
witness and Frank Cole the defendant,
the defendant being discharged and
the costs charged against plaintiff.
Mary Ch-Ebelsheiser vs.. George W.
Wiseman ct al-Petition for foreclo-
sure on certain real estate securing a
promissory note for $1,700.
Philip Daggett ct al vs.. First Ma.
tional bank Of Chicago-Petition for
partition Of certain described real es.
tate Of the late William Daggett, de-
ceased, estate.
J. w. Dunning. application for per.
init to sell intoxicating liquors at his
store in Chillicothe.
Hannah ]. Ives VS.. B. Holman ct al
Plaintiff alleges that she is the