The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-09
SEEKS $4,000
| FOR ALIENATION
OF SPOuSE'SL0vE
(Snecial to The Farmer)

New York, March Suit for $780,
900 for alienation of affections has
been brought in the Supreme court
against Baron Alfred de Ropp and
his wife by Mrs. Olga May de Ropp,
formerly known to Yale college stu
dents as Bobby Fisher. The suit
is brought through her mother Mrs.
Bessie May Fisher of Bridgeport be-
cause Mrs Olga May de Ropp is not
legal age. It is alleged that the
parents have alienated the affections
of her husband Alfred J. de Ropp.
The legal proceedings have fur
nished the first confirmation of the
report some years ago that young de
Ropp, then nineteen years old, had
married the New Haven girl, who is
variously said to be the daughter of
an apartment house owner, a janitor
and a railroad conductor, Baron de
Ropp, being a Russian subject, petit
toned to have the case removed to
the Federal Court, but Supreme Court
Justice Hotchkiss rules that because
the plaintiff is American the case
cannot be transferred.
Baron de Ropp is the head of the
American interests Of the COnsolida-
ted South African Goldfields, Ltd, at
No. 233 Broadway. The Baroness
was Miss Elizabeth Morton, and is a
member of the D. A. R., and the CO.
lonial Danes.
Although young Mr.. de Ropp and
his New Haven sweetheart were mar
ried as long ago as Nov. z, 1914, she
is still q minor, and is bringing suit
through her mother, Mrs. Bessie May
Fisher of Bridgeport; Conn.
Mrs. Olga May de Ropp declares to
the court she enjoyed her young hus-
bands affections, protection and COM
partnership until January, 1915. But,
before this time, she alleges, his par
ents began wilfully, wickedly and
manciously to entice, induce and per-
suade the said Alfred j. de Ropp to
leave her without support and change
his residence from said New Haven
to California
Baroness and Baron de Ropp, the
wife's complaint continues, threaten
ed to withdraw support from their
son unless he should desert his wife
but promised to give him ample fu-
ture provision and to finance him and
his education at Leland Stanford, r..
University If he would not live with
his bride until his graduation in June
1916.
He went to the university and was
graduated, it Is said, with honors. But
In May or June, 1916, his wife assrets
the Baron and Baroness told him they
| would give him post graduate
| course abroad and pay his wife's ex.
penses in getting a divorce from him
II he would agree.
| Mrs. de Ropp says her titled father.
| in-law and his wife promised to de.
| fray the expenses of a divorce suit
! and the papers set forth that she still
| is his wife.
In his petition for the removal OF
the case to the United States Distric1
| Court, the Baron swears:
| your petitioners son, while at.
tending Yale, married the plaintiff
He was at the time of his maria &c
without means of support and was
dependent for his support and educa.
ton upon your petitioner.
After his marriage to the plaintiff
| he was expelled from college by rea.
son Thereof, and in order to complete
his education he left the plaintiff and
attended college in another state.
The Baron's petition states his be.
lief that he has a good defense anG
his intention to fight the case. His
lawyer As Phelan Bea1e of No. Wal
street His daughter-in-law is repre-.
scented locally by Wilder, Even & Pat.
terson Of No. As Cedar street Tha,
firm had nothing to say yesterday
Mr.. Beale made written statement
Of which a part fC,sows:
"It is the ordinary case so Otter
| met with in New York city, where
the son Of parents reputed wealthy
while in his freshman or sophomore
year, marries a girl in the college
town. Because the father and mother
Of the youth do not open their money
bags but compel the impetuous bride
groom to earn the keep of himself
and wife, the young lady brings al
alienation suit.
The foregoing fits the present case