Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1916 — WANTS $15,000 FOR ALIENATION [ARTICLE]

WANTS $15,000 FOR ALIENATION

Sam Duvall Asks for Above Sum From Father, Mother and Uncle of His Wife. Rumors that Sam Duvall was to bring suit for damages against Rev. and Mrs. P. C. Curnick for alienation of the affections of ihis wife, Pauline Curnick Duvall, who recently left him because of alleged ill treatment and went to Evansville, where she is staying at the home of an uncle, John Semonin, were fully confirmed Tuesday afternoon when young Duvall through his attorneys, W. H. Parkison and Mose Leopold, filed suit in the Jasper circuit court for $15,000. (Both Rev. and Mrs. Curnick, father and mother of Mrs. Duvall, and the uncle with whom she is now staying are named as defendants. The marriage of Samuel OT'Duvall and Pauline Curnick, as stated in a recent issue of The Democrat, was the result of a high school romance, the couple eloping to Kalamazoo, Mich., where they were married June 14, 1914. They returned to Rensselaer and had been keeping house here for the greater part of the time since. It was generally predicted from the date of their marriage that unpleasant results would follow, and that their married life has not been at all times a bed of roses is generally believed. The complaint, after setting out the date of their marriage, alleges that they lived together as husband and wife until Jan. 26, 1916, when, through the efforts of the father, mother nd uncle of plaintiff’s wife, the latter 'was induced to leave him and has since been sheltered and harbored by the uncle, John Semonn, with whose family at Evansville she has been for several weeks. The Democrat is informed that the defendants asked for a speedy trial and wanted the case tried this week, but other matters intervening made it necessary for it to go over until the April term.