Weekly journal-miner., 1922-02-08
LYNCH DECREE ENDS CONTEST
 OVER DIVORCE
Three Day Trial of Sensational Issues of Re-Opened Divorce Case Ends Early in Afternoon With Decision for Plaintiff.
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James L. Lynch carry ycalSI udy afternoon was granted a divorce from Rose Elizabeth Lynch after re- hearing of the case which was open ed following the issuance of the first decree and a trial of three days. The Lynch divorce case was the first to be contested in the superior court here for many months.
 Alberta Guide, Los Angeles business woman, brains of an important branch Of the retail shoe industry there, was the outstanding witness for the plaintiff in rebuttal proceed ings that immediately preceded the order granting the decree. Miss Guide testified that she was not properly named in Mrs. I.ynch's answer, as candidate for Alr. Lynch's affections; that she was the friend with whom sister of Mir. Lynch had lived, and that she had been associated through her business with the plaintiff, at one time large figure in the retail and wholesale business on the Pacific coast
 Lynch, who a year or 50 ago was an accountant in the Jerome Superior Mining company at Jerome, and was one of the storm centers in that com pany's recent series of disturbances, obtained a divorce here on the grounds of desertion. About year later, Mrs. Lynch, declaring she had not been served with notice of the suit. although Lynch knew her whereabouts, obtained an order set ting aside the decree and then filed an answer through her counsel, Lam son & Jones. That firm having been dissolved upon Mir. Lamson's becom- ing Judge Lanson, the case was handled by Edward s. Lyman and John Renoc. Ellis & Loveridge ap- peared for Lynch.
 Trial of the new issues was fraught with sensational testimony; it touch ed upon Lynch's alleged intoXication and his isolation for treatment in various California institutions; the charge that Mrs. Lynch had ruined him in business and driven him to despair by a story of unmentionablt practices threats and counter threats Mrs. Lynch opposed the divorce on the ground of religious scruples and the plaintiff declared on the stand that his wife had sub scribed to a religion whose creed was based upon hatred.
 At one time Mrs. Lynch said she believed the wounds of years of stormy married life could be healed; Lynch declared that the memory could never be effaced.
 The rame of Miss Gpde having been brought into question during the testimony, the plaintiff obtained her as a witness and she occupied the stand for some time yesterday. At the question by Judge Ellis whether she and NIT. Lynch had com tenlplated marrying when he obtained divorce, she smiled. "Let me re- mind you, Judge Ellis" she said, that for a year ii was presumed that Mir. Lynch held a valid decree If there had been any intention, we could have married then. No, such step was certainly not contemplated by either of us"
 Judge Ellis argument was de acribed by MT. Lyman in a reply to it, as a Inasterly disquistion on the divorce laws It ranked with the ad- dress on this subject by a college professor he, had heard. But he thought that the fact Mrs. Lynch had always maintained home for Ter husband, whether he was doing well or i'll, indicated that she was kindly person and not devotee of hate
 In pronouncing the decision of the court, which followed quickly upon the closing arguments, Judge Sweeney said that in the opinion of the court, the contention of cruelty, sustained by dispositions, was proved, and that the prayer of the plaintiff would be granted