She Wants A Divorce

And Makes Her Husband's Father and Mother Defendants.

It's a cold week when the Argus does not have the commencement of one or two divorce cases to chronicle. The latest comes from Ypsilanti town. Mr. [Ms.?] Bertha E. Beach has just filed a bill in the circuit court asking for a divorce from her husband, Frank W. Beach, and making as defendants also to the bill his father and mother Mr. and Mrs. William Beach and D. B. Green. She wants a divorce on the ground that her husband is a habitual drunkard, is extremely cruel to her and neglects to support her and her 12 year old daughter. They were married May 1. 1883, in Monroe county, N. Y. The bill sets up that she left him in 1890 to support herself and child and went out to work, that by hard work and frugality she accumulated $176, that in order to get the use of this money, Beach, his father and mother persuaded her to put this $176 into a half acre of ground, the deed of which ran to the father; that the father and mother made a deed of this property to the husband Frank W. Beach, which she supposed was properly recorded, but which they filed with D. B. Green on Nov. 3, 1891, with instructions not to deliver it to the husband until their death; that in consideration of her husband's promise to reform and a contract from him to deed her the property he advanced the money. The bill goes on to set up that on March 19, 1892, Frank W. Beach did make a warranty deed of the property to her which was duly recorded, that a house was erected on the land for $350 and that besides the $176 in money, she had paid for it by assisting in raising garden stuff and peddling it in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, she also claims to have earned $125 towards a $175 barn. She now wants an order compelling this property to be deeded over to her. A temporary injunction was issued by the court restraining the defendants from selling or disposing of the property or interfering with her in the possession of it during the pendency of the suit.