To Set Aside Divorce

TO SET ASIDE DIVORCE

BECAUSE THE WIFE HURRIED PROCEEDINGS TOO FAST.

An Illustration In Circuit Court of the Old Adage, "The More Haste, the Less Speed."

Frank W. Beach and Bertha E. Beach, of Ypsilanti town, were divorced March 11, 1893. Now Frank W. Beach by his attorneys Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer has filed a bill in the circuit court to have the divorce set aside on the grounds that the entire proceedings upon which the decree of divorce was granted are irregular and void, in that no default of the defendant was ever entered in the case and no answer had been filed and testimony was taken and decree granted upon the ground of cruelty, non-support and drunkenness in three months and eight days after the wife had filed a bill asking for a divorce, while the statute requires that unless the divorce be for desertion no proofs sball be taken within four months except for the purpose of perpetuating testimony.

The divorce proceedings were commenced by Bertha E. Beach on Dec. 3, last and she impleaded with the defendant, his father and mother and the late Daniel B. Greene. She afterwards discontinued proceedings against the other defendants and on March 11 took a decree of divorce against her husband.