Otoe County NeArchives News.....Otoe County Woman Divorced, Doesn't Know it Yet December 12, 1885
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The Nebraska State Journal Sat Dec 12, 1885 December 12, 1885

   DIVORCE
	
An Otoe County Woman Divorced and Doesn't Know It Yet

Nebraska City News.
  On Tuesday last Mrs. Mary Michael filed papers in
the district court praying that a decree of divorce,
granted in that county on the 2d of this month to 
her husband, John Michael, be set aside, on the ground
that she had received no notice of the pendency of
said suit, that she understood. 
   The parties reside near Palmyra, and Mr. Michael
is supposed to be worth at least $74,000 in lands,
stocks and moneys and is well known throughout this
county. In the petition filed by Mr. John Michael in
October he charges his wife with adultery and being 
a very bad woman on general principles. It was on this
petition that the court granted a divorce to Mr. 
Michael and gave him care and custody of the three
boys.
  Mrs. Michael, in her petition, states that she has 
lived with her husband since their marriage up to the
third day of the present month, and denies that she
has been other than a faithful wife. She denies knowing
anything of the divorce proceedings, except one time
when the husband took the notice from her hand and
locked it up in his drawer, stating that he had dismissed
the suit. She states that he left home on the day that
he procured the divorce, stating that he was giong to 
Nebraska City on a little business, never for once 
hinting that it was to secure a divorce. She further
alleges that the defendant is worth about $75,000 in
lands, stocks and moneys and she prays that the court
grant her a decree from bed and board, custody of the
three children aged respectively six, eight and nine
years, and a sufficient alimony to sustain her and
the children.
   As yet the husband has not file his answer, but
it is thought that it will be rather racy. The case
will be hotly contested, as F. T. Ransom, M. L. 
Hayward and F. F. Ireland appear for Mrs. Michael, 
and J. C. Watson and H. D. Rhea for John Michael. 
The case will probably be argued at the next term of
the district court.

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