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7 12, 190*.Demurrer of Wealthy OwenBurns I )verruled, I le MustDefend Action.S ft E C I. A IM S F R A L' I).Induced, She I declares, to SienDeeds at Yacht Club Dinner of “Reconciliation.”When Owen Bumf, of Chicago tnrtNow York, president of the W, F.Hume Manufacturing Company, iuedhis beautiful young wife. Dorothy, fora divorce, naming fellow-mcmbers ofthe Calumet Club, Chicago, now livinghere, she denied the charges. She aDodeclared he had been disagreeable sincetheir honeymoon days at Salt Lake Hty, through a trip to Europe and home again. whore sho wan between the fires of his temper and hla septuagenarian mother’s whims at thclr magnificent home, Hums Terrace, In-w ood.4They had been separated two of theI1orndeeifnfthree years since he trufliced her toleave her place ns clonk model In Chi- pcagn and become Ids wife, when, on j June 29 Inst, sho received from him an Invitation to a family dinner at the Columbia Yacht Club.Mrs. Hums has eued to nullify the result of what happened at the dinner She alleges In a complaint that her)* husband got her to sign papers, the effect of which she did not know at thetime.Signed Away Dower Rights.The papers were deeds conveyingBurns Terrace, worth $2f»0,000, ownedJointly by Owen Burns and his ulster,Ursula C. Burns, and upon which her husband told her there would be a profit of $50,00b, while to hold on to the properly It would mean a 1«lt;m of $2f*,«V). She signed nwny her dower rights to this big property, supposing she was helping along a reconciliation, she declares.Mrs. Burns wns dumbfounded, she ewears, when two days later a process server gave bar tho papers In her husband's suit for divorce upon charges»L AM .. 4 .. I. • 1.1then only four days’ oldIn the present suit she sets forth all | I demands payment *»f her dower • *seirdthis and demands paymentIn tho property, computing her share of s i the income at $o,»W\75, due on Juno 2J last. «Demurrer Is Overruled,Mr. Burns submitted a demurrer, and the case wns nrgued before Justice Blanchard, hartd May, for tho wife, contended that the complaint set forth j a cause of action, when If alleged that itho deceptions and fraudub nt representations of owon Burns, her husband, who had Intimated only friendly (• clings toward her up to that time, induced her to sign the deeds.Justice Blanchard to-day overruled | the demurrer. He said:The demurrer Impliedly, admits the marriage of the parties, tl e ownership r.f the property, and tin* wrongful acts(• •f Burns and the ex Inter if .Mrs. iBurns's dower Interests. Tin* complaint idemands money damages, and tieamount thereof ran he determined uponthe trial by proof of the ago of Mrs Burn* (she Is twenty-four), the value of the property and by use of the Northampton tables as to her rro*i»ectof life. 'So Owen Burns will have to defend his wlfos fiiIt. •\
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New York Evening World
New York, New York, US
Tue, Jan 12, 1909
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