WIFE'S SURPRISE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 17 January 1913, Page 8

WIFE'S SURPRISE.

Stating that she did not know she was divorced and only learned of it when her husband, a Paris banker, proposed to contract a second marriage, Mine. Saint Beat appealed to the courts to prevent the wedding. Through her counsel Mine. Saint Beat stated that she was married at Uie age of 20, but a year later her busband convinced her of the necessity i)f obtaining a separate maintenance order. She complied, and accompanying her husband to a friend's house, she signed, without reading them, a number of documents presented to her. She was astonished when she learned that her husband had obtained an order for divorce against her by default and that judgment had been entered and registered at Bayonne.

ft was declared that when the divorce judgment was given the wife was actually living with her husband and that he, when absent from her, was in the habit of writing her the most affectionate letters.

M. Saint Beat's father and mother also opposed their son's second marriage because the first union bad not been annulled by the court of Home. The banker in his defence asserted that Mme. Saint. B"at knew that she was divorced.

The tribunal decided that there was no legal ground for opposing M. Saint Heat's second marriage. His former wife and his parents therefore were non-suited.