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NEW FORM OF ACTION.Salt by a Married Woman (orMaintenance and Support.At the last session of the Legislature an act was passed “in relation to married women/’ tending to alleviate their condition when abandoned by by their baabandi, or when their natural protectors refuse or neglect to support them. Tbusct provides “ that hereafter women who, without ibeir fault, now live, or may hereafter live, eepa-rate and apart from thelrhoabinds, may have theirremedy In equity, dn their own name, reapecti rely, against their eald husbands, for a reasonable support and maintenance while they ao live or have so lived separate and apart, ana in determining the amount to be allowed, the court shall have reference to the condition or the parties in life and the circumstances of the respective cases. The conrt may grant allowance to enable the wife to prosecute her suits, aa in case or divorce.”The llrat salt brought under this act In this county was yesterday instituted in the Circuit Conrt. Harriet Johnson (late Boyds ton) yesterday filed her bill to recover and receive maintenance and support from her husband. James Johnson, under the state of case intended by the statute.. The complainant states that she married her husband on the 22d day of March, 1S6I, at Warsaw. Indiana; whence ehortl? following the date of the wedding she moved with her hninand to a farm owned by him in Fayette County in the 8tate of Iowa. 8he says that alter the expiration of about three years, subsequent to that removal, they came to this State where they have since, for a greater portion of the time, resided, this county being their home, although they have not lived together, hut separate ana apart. She chargee that on the 14th day of Jannarv, lS6i, a child was born or the marriage, and that the husband has not only himself kept apart from her, hut that he baa wrongfully taken the childfrom her custody, and that ho has kept him awavfrom her and Is now training to not only not can; for her. but teaching him to refuse to speak to or recognize her. Alleging her proper conduct she allercs that his separation Is without cause, and that she bus been compelled to use feeble efforts as well as to almost solicit charity to maintain llle within her, the result of which is that her health has become impaired, so that her husbsmd has said that because she Is so sick and weakly he desires to be rid of her that he may marry a more healthy woman. She Bars that the child was curried away in the fall of 1800. and that then her husband also went away. She states that the respondent still owns the farm In Fayette County, Iowa, where they once lived, and other property, and she therefore asks, under the statute for an order of maintenance.Tin* Court ordered that the defendant pay $50 solicitor’s fee, flUO to the complainant, fo'r the payment of money by her alleged to be due atS resent for her support, with a month, the ret paj ment to fall due on the first day of December.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Nov 19, 1867
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