Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — LAW ON REMARRIAGE [ARTICLE]

LAW ON REMARRIAGE

Of Divorcees in Indiana Rendered Valueless by Appeals Court Decision. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 30.—A decision of the supreme court in a case from St. Joseph county, attempting to cite, a woman foi contempt of court for disobeying its order not to marjy within two years of the date of a divorce she was granted, is declared to have rendered valueless a divorce law

tliat was supposed to be effective. Quirts jhave been in the habit of prohibiting divorced men and women from marrying until two years after the granting of the decree. Ada King, a South Bend woman. was married a month after she obtained a divorpe. In rendering the decision on the appeal in her case Judge Myers of the Supreme Court says: “It is significant that no penally is imposed for the violation >f this statute, and as our offenses are statutory, it can hardly be insisted that general laws, or >ther statutes may be looked to, unless it be the statute of contempt."