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Show SNUBBED WIFE BEATS IN LAWS' IN HUGE SUIT BURLINGTON. Vt-. Dec 7 An award of $465,000 was made today by the Jury which for more than 40 hours had deliberated over tho million-dollar claim of Mrs Dorrlt Stevens Wood-house Wood-house against her wealthy parents at law. Mr and Mrs. Lorenzo E. Wood-house Wood-house of New York and this city, for 'the alienation of the affections of her husband. Douglas Woodhouse The case had consumed five weeks In hearing hear-ing The plaintiff, daughter of a family in modest circumstances who wero neighbors of the wealthy Woodhouses jhero. contended that her parents at law had Inspired and supported her I husband in a separation from her that led to his going to Reuo, Nevada, to establish a residence us a basis for a dlorce She had been snubbed by them, she submitted, and never had been given adequate recognition as the w if e of t heir son |