Sues Husband's Parents

And Also His Grandmother for $25,000 for

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ALIENATING AFFECTIONS

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Of Nathaniel W. Laird — A Striking Suit from Chelsea Begun in Circuit Court

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Mrs. Alice Floy Laird has commenced suit for $25,000 damages for the alienation of her husband's affections against her husband's father and mother and grandmother.

The bill of complaint sets up the marriage of Mrs. Laird to Nathaniel William Laird by the Rev. Franklyn A. Sayles, at Chelsea, on April 3, 1901, and the birth of a daughter on June 16, 1902. It claims that they had lived together happily in Sylvan township until about Nov. 12, of last year. It charges that William H. Laird and his wife, the father and mother of the husband, and Ellen Guthrie, his graudmother, conspired together with various slanders and false statements to destroy the offection (sic) of the husband, so that he should refuse longer to give her his affection, comfort, society, aid and assistance. The bill claims that the defendants caused N. W. Laird to desert the plaintiff and to leave the state and that, knowing his whereabouts, they have refused to acquaint the plaintiff with it.

The case is not a common one and bids fair to attract considerable interest when tried.