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Show Justice, Affpr Many Years of W ultius. Louisville, Ky., 7. The famous domestic tragedy suit commonly known as the jewcomb case was decided to-day in favor of the plaintiff. plain-tiff. Tho case is briefly this: In 1S3S H. D. Newcomb married Mrs. Cor- , nelia Read in this city, Mrs. New-comb New-comb became insane and was put in a hospital by her husband, though never adjudged insauo. In 1872 the Kentucky legislature passed a law declaring it a ground for divorce that a husband or wile is incurably insane, such insanity being hereditary and not made known at the time of the marriage. Under this act Newcomb was divorced and subsequently married mar-ried and had two children. In 1871 he died, leaving a large estate, which ho disposed of by will. The friends of the first wife, however, instituted suit for the property on the ground that she had never been legally divorced. di-vorced. Tho caso has been in the courts ovor two years. The decision holds that the divorce is absolutely abso-lutely void, and decrees to the first wife her property rights ai the widow of Newcomb. The estato is worth a million and a half. Under a statute of Kentucky the children of a second marriage are not illegitimate. |