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Show I HARD KNOT FOR JUOGETOUNTIE ! Alleged Common-Law Wife S Seeks Divorce and Divis ion of Property. TWIN FALLS, Ida., June 1. A judicial judi-cial problem having unusual features is now seeking solution by Judge W. A. Babcock of the district court. It pertains to an application for divorce di-vorce under a common law marriage, i The court has had the case under nilvisoment for a week or more, but admits that there are puzzling angles Which" cannot be solved by cursory consideration. Jennie Larsen is the applicant and Im i'aui L.arsen is me neienuam. j w- 5' ' latter is a North Twin Falls district 'I , ' farmer who. in resisting (he appllca- 1 1 Hon of his alleged wife, declared ho 3 ! is being fleeced and that no marriage A : I contract or ceremony has ever been f entered into between him and the wo-man wo-man calling herself his wife. . . t The plaintiff does not allege that ! any ceremony was ever performed,! basing her case upon a presumption that to live with a man two years makes a woman a common-law wife. W On Larson's place is a house which I V I ' he rents. Back of .1his residence is a shack which he occupied while the L house was tenanted. Two years ago r 1 the plaintiff in this case, with a grown u- ( daughter, occupied the residence. Lar- 1 , sen had the shack. Winter came on. L ! nnd while Larson one cold day was in Vt ' Jerome, the womnn, according to testi- I ' mony. moved his bed and belongings I 1 into the residence . Excusing this act, J Iarsen told the court, the woman said I I she could not rest comfortably and I have a man occupyfng an tmcomfort- I able shack in cold weather. Larson I said he offered no objection and thore- I! imer uvea in ine nuuae wun wie u- man. Testimony was introduced to show that the woman had contracted i i j debts in various places Jn the name or 1 I Mrs. Paul Larsen, the same being paid by Larsen by check. The last debt of his nature was contracted with Dr. ' R. A. Parrotl, an optician of Twin 1 Fallo. Larsen paid the hill when pre- sonted. All these acts, counsel for thei ' p'alntiff claims, constitute acceptance j i J of marriage by common law. Larsen j jv-J is a cripple." having one leg off just V' above the ankle. He is ab'out 52 years of age and the woman 50. Larsen is j reputed to be wealthy. The woman's .i application includes division of prop-L; prop-L; erly oo ! |