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*rvesipitolthe bridge was $22,231.50. $2,50'at Si'CHALLENGES IBTheeludecur-ctoryrnredan'1i I 111 H I JI JI 4 111 11nl , inn :PART OF LAWauto.Milof a 1 of Sccovei5 the I i taineiringSAYS COURT CANT MAKE AN579 10Sisiio INVESTIGATION.iPIN(256.50572.53821.3644»l4o Omaha Man Whose Divorce Peti-194.08state n. h.ctorymthareve-Bryation Was Denied Takes HisGrievance to High Court for Settlement.OXPinclprincionalards, itory, d an icity. ly aJOG!Charles T. Thomas, night super- Unlo . intendeut of a string of popular res- • here lings taurants in Omaha, challenges in I noun supreme court the validity of that j at 2 part of the existing divorce law ! Otl which provides that where default Char is made by the defendant the court 1 H. 1 may appoint certain named officers j Tax ! to make an investigation and report of th to him. The fact that it omits to C. L require the investigator to be sub- Barn jected to cross examination under j Davii oath is claimed to make the law I 500 lt;the i unconstitutional. j theThomas sued his wife Mae for a j atten divorce. They were married in Michigan in 1919. Both had been married before. His wife had died jand she had been divorced. He said ithat she had called him abusive jnames and had numerous sulky “f spells because she did not like living ! in Omaha, and he would not go back t-ast. I presiitslope-onlylolpharlesDISmar alebP the 1 finally left on a visit, and he j .gible Bhe never returned to him. j ™ Dach- ^*lf* *la(* January, and he subre_ | rrdtted letters from her in which she told him that there was some^ ‘ ! one else in the game that she liked s ln. i a lot better than she did Thomas, had wanted her to go back to New inge- Tork to live, and she thought maybe we(j. j some time she would. After thusone i exploding the mine under his feet, j sons,OX uni vcsmalllargeLdingcantgrin at ionligedtheafterthe M r.cces-an of been The Heitexsoon i, formtedspecfcfhtercity.she wound up the letter by saying , univethat as there was no news she would close for that time. In answer to a request for the man's name she later wrote that it was Clement Cuby.Judge L. B. Day was not satisfied with the report made by Esther Johnson, chief probation officer, and made a personal investigation. He found that Mrs. Thomas had returned to Omaha on August 21st and lived for a week with her husband. He also found she was still in the city, and had no desire to resume matrimonial duties. Holdingthat Thomas had perpetrated a fraud on the court by concealing the facts at the trial that his wife had returned and was in Omaha, he dismissed Thomas* petition. The latter t ter-1 appeals on the ground that the provision for an investigation is void.nightpresiassoccoinwillsoutlsaid.the cstadiandNotnSecciatic that rnitu and t ity v decisHe s planeent £
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Wed, Nov 14, 1923
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