Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
News of the Courts
CAN STAY OUT NIGHTS
AND NEEDN'T TELL WIFE
Judge Hutton Decides Husbands
Absences from Home Not
Grounds for Divorce

Prolonged hours of work in the at
tendance of his duties as a physician
and the playing of bridge by the wife
in an effort to kill time resulted in DR..
Andrew j. Berry securing an interlocu-
tory decree of divorce from Lula A
Berry in Judge Hutton's court yester-
dav on the ground Of desertion.
The plaintiff declared his wife lett
him more than year ago and had re-
fused to come back to him. after ne
had endeavored by every means IN ms
power to effect a reconciliation. lie de-
clared he had given her three Yaluaole
pieces of property in the city, but that
this had no effect in changing MS
wife's attitude toward him.
The physician said that the first
breach had occurred because his wife
objected to his staying down town TO
attend to his duties as a practitioner,
and that they had also had disagree
ment over her playing bridge TO eX-
cess. She had gone back to her folks
he said, alleging she might as we'll go
home as to put up with his long alb
sences from the family fireside.
Lillian NJ Lovely established deser-
tion and failure to provide on the part
of John E. Lovely in her suit for
divorce, but the decree was temporarily
refused until her attorney had arranged
the papers in the case to suit the
legal requirements of the court.
SAYS HUSBAND WAS ENIBEZZLER
She said her husband had been a
trusted employe Of the Building and
Loan association in New York in 1902
and that one day he came to her and
Informed her he had embezzled large
sum of money, and that his lawyer had
suggested he go to Brazil to escape
Jail.
The plaintiffs mother gave him the
money to go, and she had not seen him
again until she received word from
him that he had come back to the
United States under another name in
1908 and was in Galveston, where she
went and talked with him. He went
back to Brazil, where he was in the
employ of a railroad, she said.
During his absence. she testified, he
had sent her insufficient money for the
support of herself and child. and she
had been compelled to become mas
seuse to earn her living in Los Angeles,
to which city she came over two years
ago. She introduced q letter from her
husband which told of his plight and
that he was afraid to have her write
to him for fear his hiding place would
be discovered.
Emma NJ. Geddes charged James w.
Geddes with cruelty and staying away
from home two or three nights a week.
He said she should take in sewing if
she wanted any clothes to wear, and
frequently beat her. she declared. She
said he had been seen frequently in the
company of another woman, and when
she asked him where he had been, he
told her it was none Of her business.
CAN STAY OUT NIGHTS
She glibly repeated the "cuss" words
he used in answering her queries as
TO his absences, and said she had not
mentioned the correspondent in the
complaint because she did not want to
bring disgrace on his aged parents.
"I don't know why a wife should be
granted a divorce because her husband
refuses to tell her where he has been
at night, or all night" said Judge
Hutton. 'It appears to me that the
real subject of the complaint-the wo-
man in the case-has been studiously
avoided, and I cannot grant a divorce
on the grounds named in the COM
plant. If you want to get service on
the husband to prove his unfaithful-
ness. I grant you leave to amend the
complaint for a divorce on the latter
grounds"
Eva Humphreys was granted an in
terlocutory decree of divorce from Will
liam G.. Humphreys on the ground of
desertion and failure to provide. She
said she had married him in Colorado