Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — Schneidt Case Goes to High Court. [ARTICLE]

Schneidt Case Goes to High Court.

The action to set aside the divorce decree granted to William Schneidt, now dead, was thrown out of court at Rensselaer by Judge Hanley who sustained the demurrer of the defense. The suit was brought by the first wife against the third who .is administratrix of Schneidt’s estate. Schneidt was accidently killed hy a Michigan Central train two years ago while he was employed on the Hammond fire department. The law suit was taken to Rensselaer on a change of venue. The demurrer which Judge Hanley sustained was prepared.by Attorney R. B. McAleer of the Hammond law firm of McAleer Bros. The complaint alleges that he left secretly and that, plaintiff made every effort to locate him ibut without success. He settled in Hammond, and there applied for and was given a divorce, making an affidavit that he did not know where his wife resided. Later he married again and then died, having been killed by a railroad train. He left his third wife and a child considerable property in the way of insurance and a valuable lot in Hammond. The first wife hopes to reach this property by setting aside the divorce which her husband

obtained from her in 1905 on tho ground that such divorce was obtained fraudulently and that at the time of his death she was his legal wife. The plaintiff represented by attorney J. K. Stinson was granted an appeal to the supreme court. —-Lake County Times.