Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Newton County Divorce Case To Be Tried in This County. [ARTICLE]

Newton County Divorce Case To Be Tried in This County.

Ella Kight has brought suit for divorce from her husband, William Kight. The parties reside in Newton county, and the case has been venued to this county for trial. The complaint alleges that Kight and his wife were married Nov. 4, 1901, and that he abandoned her June 9, 1905, and has made no provision whatever for her support since that time although fully able so to do. The complaint f irther states that the defendant has recently come into possession of $2000 left him by a relative now deceased. The complaint alleges that he is a healthy and able bodied man 46 years of age and earns SSO a month and has earned this amount continually since he abandoned the plaintiff. The defendant states that she has no means of suppo’T aud is entirely dependent. She asks judgment in the sum of SI,OOO to be paid in monthly installments of $25. The plaintiff is represented by W. H, Parkinson and William Cummings. She is now in Bellefountaine, Ohio, at the bedside of her mother.