Four Are Defendants

FOUR ARE DEFENDANTS

TO ONE DIVORCE SUIT IN THIS CITY

Because the Wife Wants Dower Interest in Property the Husband Has deeded Away. Other Court Notes.

An amended bill has been filed in the chancery case of Ellen Hines complainant vs Thomas A. Hines, Peter. Hines, Martha Hines and Eugene P. Hines, defendants. After reciting the general allegation of cruelty on which she asks a divorce, the complainant charges that Oatherine Hines, the wife of Peter Hines and mother of her husband, Thomas A. Hines, died and left some property in the city of Ann Arbor. That her husband with the other heirs had an interest in said property. She then alleges that Peter Hines set about with deceitful and fraudulent representations and by trickery to cheat and defraud said son and deprive him of his entire interest in said property and her of her dower interest. .She claims that her husband drank liquor to excess and, when in a condition not fit to do business, his father approached him the day after his mother's funeral and succeeded in getting him to sign a quit claim deed. When the complaint was approached the day following she perceived the paper was a deed and believing that her husband was deceived and mislead in regard to the deed destroyed his signature by tearing off a portion of the paper. This she claims was done with her husband 's consent. After this another quit claim deed was signed by her husband. She now asks that a lien be created on his land for the alimony in her suit, and her dower interest and that if the heirs cannot agree upon an amicable partition, commissioners be appointed and the interest of her husband be sold, and the proceeds be applied on her lien. M. J. Cavanaugh is Mrs. Hines' solicitor.

In the case of John Purdy vs. William Dolby and John Dolby, Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer have entered their appearance as attorneys for the defendents.

Andrew E. Gibson has signed an application to the governor to be appointed a notary public.

In the case of Ella M. Miller, complainant vs. John Miller, defendant, Arthur Brown, the solicitor for the complainant has entered an order to show cause why alimony is not paid.