The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-20
TO CLAMP LID
ON DIVORCES
Wants State Legislature to
Forbid Outside Suits to
Come Here.
HAVE FLOODED COURTS
Reports Show Kenosha County
Court Machinery ClOgged Up
by Divorce Suits.

Action to prevent Kenosha from be-
coming the Reno of Wisconsin" was
taken this morning when the county
board of supervisors by an unanimous
vote passed resolution calling upon
the state legislature to enact law
to prevent divorce action from be-
ing instituted in any county other
than the county wherein one of the
parties has resided continuously for
a period of at least two years inlmed-
lately preceding the commencement of
the divorce action. Copies of the res
olution are to be forwarded to each
Of the assemblymen from Kenosna
county and also to the state senator
! from this district.
The action is taken as a protest to
the food of divorce suits coming from
other Wisconsin counties to Kenosha
county and resulting in cloggirg up
of the legal machinery of this ccun-
ty. Most of these cases, it is said
come from Milwaukee, the principals
desiring to speed up the action by
bringing it in Kenosha county or de-
string to avoid the publicity which
might come if the suit was filed in the
home county.
Show Courts are Clogged.
The resolution was introduced by
Supervisor N. J. Roders, who showed
that the influx of divorce suits into
this county had so clogged up the
court calendars here that it had forced
delay of other court actions much to
the disadvantage of Kenosha county
He also showed how the foreign" di-
vorce cases cost Kenosha county con-
siderable money during the year, the
costs of the cases not making up for
the inconvenience and delay occasion
ed by them.
1t was also claimed that the action
was taken in Kenosha county in some
instances so that the defendants die
not have the proper opportunity to
present themselves as contemplated in
the law and that in fairness to- all the
practice should be halted.
Other Counties May Join.
While it is maintained that Keno
sha has received the bulk of this ov-
erflow divorce legal action from Mil
waukee county, it is also known that
other counties, including Racine, have
also been burdened in similar way
and it is anticipated that these viii
join in the action started by Kenoshs
county to force the bringing of such
suits in the home counties.
The resolution adopted by the Ke
.nosha county board is sself-explana.
tory. 1t reads as follows:
Whereas, civil cases from outside
counties, and more particularly di,
vorce actions properly triable in Mil
waukee county, are causing the courts
of Kenosha county to become con
gested, and said divorce actions can.
not receive the investigation by the
divorce counsel contemplated by Law
and in many instances are instituted
in Kenosha county and other countie:
outside of Milwaukee county anc
service obtained by publication in {
local paper with little or no chance
of defendant receiving any notice, anC
frequently for the purpose of evadint
the law and precluding a proper in
vestigation by the divorce counsel con
templated by the statute; and,
Whereas, Kenosha county at tn,
present time has only one municipal
court; and,
Whereas, said municipal court a
the present time is overcrowded will
crinina. and civil cases,
"Now therefore, be it resolved, tina
the Kenosha county board petition tn,
legislature of the state of Wisconsin
to so amend or change the law to rem