Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-29
SUES HIS WIFE
FOR SECURITIES
Former Freeholder Seeks to OBJ
tain Bonds Valued at
$50, 900.

| Suit TO recover bonds and securi.
ties worth $56,000 from his wife. Mrs
| Hattie Andreas, was started today by
| Wendell Andreas, of Teaneck, Bergen
county, before Vice. Chancellor How.
ell. lie is a former freeholder OF
that county.
The couple have been separated
since September, 1918, when Mrs
! Andreas withdrew the securities from
a safe deposit box at the Jersey City
office of the New Jersey Title Guar
| antee and Trust Company. The hus-
| Rand contends that Mrs. Andreas
never held title to the securities and
| had no right to remove them.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Andreas were mar
ried on April s, 1901 In October OF
| the same year a box was rented OF
| the Mercantile Safe Deposit Com
pany, 115 Broadway, New York city
for wendell Andreas or Hattie An
, dreas." In 1908 the securities were
removed to the New Jersey Title
| Guarantee and Trust Company al
Jersey City under the same designa-
! ton.
| On September 20, 1913, Mrs. Andreas
left her husband and went to live
with relatives in New York city. The
| following November, she started suit
! for divorce on the ground of inf
deity. The divorce suit is still pend
! ing.
The wife admits that she removed
the securities, but contends they rep
resent her share of the estate, under
an agreement made between herself
and husband. The securities, which
figure In the contest, are forty-one
United States government bonds at
/ Az per cent, valued at SAL 900; ten
| New York city bonds at AZ per cent,
valued at 10000. and five New York
city bonds at 31s per cent, valued at
| 5000.
John B. Russell, vice-president Of
the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company,
| of New York, produced the COM
! pany's record of the box rented by
| Mr. and Mrs Andreas. The husband
declared that he paid the rent for
the boxes and holds receipts showing
the monthly payments.
| On the witness stand Andreas tes-
| titled that the securities were re-
ceived by him from the estate of his
| father, John w. Andreas. He denied
having made an agreement to give
J his wife a one-half share of his es.
tate The witness told of finding a
note from his wife in the safe de-
post box a week after she left him
showing that she removed the bonds
were refused and suit was started for
| the husband by Arthur F. Egner. of
McCarter & English. Mrs. Andreas
was represented by William III. Carey
of Vredenburgh. Wall & Carey, of
Jersey City
Mr.. Carey sought to introduce evil
dence of the divorce action to prove
the moral delinquency of the hus :
| band, he said. Mr.. Egner objected
and the vice. chancellor closed the
argument by stating that the papers
| filed showed the divorce action is
still pending.
! The couple have one child, Hattie
now in the custody of her mother.
| taken by his wife constituted more
ed that the bonds were his only
source of income.
| Andreas is also seeking to have
set aside a deed to property which
| he made to his wife in March, 1911.
The former freeholder testified that
| he owns farm consisting of eighty
eight acres at Teaneck. Eleven acres
of this property, fronting on West
Englewood avenue, Teaneck. was
| decided to Mrs. Andreas. The hus-
| band declared the transfer was made
! merely for the purpose of reducing
| the tax assessment on the road front
property, and that Mrs. Andreas
never paid anything for the land.
He also produced the annual tax
J bills and checks showing that the
assessments were paid By him