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Divorce Court Deliberates Multiple Marriages and Alimony
In a Boston Divorce Court before Judge Fox several cases unfolded with Mary Clapp seeking nullity of a second marriage after learning her first husband, presumed dead, was alive. Alimony was granted to Mary L. Osgood from Otis H. as seven dollars and sixty cents weekly. Others included cases of cruelty, abandonment, and unsatisfactory conduct, with decisions reserved on several and rulings nisi or custody noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Mary A. Williams
Reed
Bridgewater
Matfield
Fox
Mary WH. Clapp
John Clapp
Paston
Clapp
Henry J. Collison
Pretty Eva Charnock
South
Boston
Herbert R
Charnock
Mary L. Osgood
Otis H
Annie M. Smallman
John W
Chicago
Sweden
Bertha BE. Judson
Buffalo
William W
Frank B. Follett
Frankie E. D
Burlington
Follett
Irene M. Bicknell
William H