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Show WIFE WITS DIVORCE DECREE SET SSIDE Charges Husband With Failure Fail-ure lo Keep Promises That , Induced Her Suit. Charging that she consented to bring divorce proceedings againft him at his instigation and on. his promise to pay her $250 alimony and buy her a railroad rail-road ticket back to her pareuts in Isovr York, Cora L. Griffith yesterday fllod suit in iho district court against Walter Wal-ter I". Griffith, asking that the decree cufcrcd in her favor sovoral -weeks ago bo declared null and void. 11. ,T. RobiuBon, an attorney, is ac-cuBed ac-cuBed by Mra. Griffith of having coiv spircd with her husband to poreuade her to institute divorce proceedings by making falno promises. Having rc ceived 110 alimony nor railroad tickotaa promised, sho asks to li-avo tho decroo set a.'ddu on tho ground thai it was obtained on false pretenses. According lo Ihe complaint, Mrs. Griffith was sorvod with a copy ot a divorce suit her husband had planned lo file against her last Sept.om.bor. Several Sev-eral days later, it is declared, Attorney Robinson called on her and represented to her that it would nave scandal and would look better on the pu'blic record if she brought the divorce instead ot hor husband. Further, ho promised that Griffith was willing lo jiay tho alimony and buy the railroad nckot as Boon as the decrco Tvaa entered. Consenting Con-senting to thid arrangement. Mrs. Gnt-jith Gnt-jith allowed Robinson to Jilc the papers f,or her. It is further alleged that Mtb. Griffith was suffering from ucrvouo prostration when she signed the papers 1 consenting to the divotvc procedure,1 nnd was not in fit condition lo rcalizo what eho did. |