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Show COURT DECIDES FOR THE WIFE Kingston, N y., Juno 3. Justice Alden Chester, presiding in one of the most remarkable cases ever tried before be-fore tho supreme court, has granted an interlocutory decree of annulment t0muIrs' Mary L,But Davis. The court holds that her husband, James E. Davis, obtained her hand by fraud and deceit In that ho refused to nave a ceremony pertormecTby a Catholic Cath-olic priest after promising his bride to do so. Although they were married by a. Protestant clergyman in New Balti- more, N. Y on Dir ember IS. 1911, tho Davises parted soon after tho cere- j mony. Her marriage, unrecognized bv 1 her church, resulted in tho oxcoramun- I1 Ication of Mrs. Dul". and she finally I appealed to tho co'.n'. to havp the union declarod void. i Tho brldgo testified that she bad pleaded with Davis to h.u a second i ceremony performed '-Bm' he always refused," she told the u. sri. "Ho j faaid he had no such Inicu. o:: even I when ho made me the pi on ;?; bo V ouly said that to get me.' i |