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Show IIENDLY DIVORCE SUIT, ut of Misunderstanding Which ilted In an Illegal Marriage. The Tiibuwv '. April 30. -The discovery that married a man who had not jreed from his former wifo ro-thc ro-thc Issuing of a divorce decree I. J. Ilnirls today to Mildred ion. the defendant In the case miiel Hodgdon. In addition to e. Mrs. Jlodgdon was given legal resume her maiden name, Mil-Early Mil-Early Tho former wife, from xltjdon has not been legally dl-i dl-i Eloanor Alice Hodgdon. Dttedon No, 2 represented In her that she was married to the on Septcml-or 11. 11)13. Later ed that her husband had never rcod from Eleanor Alice Hodg-ani Hodg-ani he hud married at. Grand kllch, on Mav IT. 1007. They :d to California from Michigan, to tho complaint, uhere Hodg-.Vav Hodg-.Vav f,. 1913, Instituted divorce ;s in the i res lor couit of that state. Ho wa Informed by his attorney that hu lind obtained ii divorce from Irs. Hodgdon No. I through tho default of his first wifo In falling to appear. This, the last wlf declare?, nhu found to he untrue, un-true, and tlint her husband ,was legally married to thu first wife at the time of tho second marriage. Tho action by Mrs. Hodk'don No. 2 was a friendly one, the same attorneys drawing draw-ing both the complaint and the defendant's defend-ant's answer. Tluj complaint wa not filed until this morning and befon: noon the marriage contract had been canceled. |