Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-19 | Page 5 | Peculiar Marital Tangle in Court

PECULIAR MARITAL TANGLE IN COURT Salt Lake Oct. 13. Claud G. Iewls. a salesman from whom Viola M. Lowls a hairdresser, procured n Interlocutory Interlocu-tory decree of divorce August 6. thU oar. says that not onlv was he Ig norant that Mrs. Ixwls was goln? to obtain a divorce, but that the testl-' nony front which the evidence on which the decreo, was based was perjured, per-jured, and in a petition filed In tho district court uesday. Lewis asks that tho decree bo Ret aside, and that he bo , permitted to make answer to the suit and fight the case. Mrs. Lewis's complaint was spicy. Shn charged that Iwls, while she was visiting her parents in MlchVean In November and D -comber of 1 9n. Introduced himself as unmarried to several women there, to one of whom I a widow named Mrs Fletcher, he engaged en-gaged himself to bo mairied. Mrs Lewis also charged Infidelity ;ind namod Mrs. Fletcher as co-respondent. Non-support and cruelty. Including blows and threats to kill, also wore ehnrped. Mrs. I-ewis was given STS attorney fees, tho custody of the three-year-old bo-y. and $40 a month alimony. Iewls now says that when Mrs Lewis filed suit he obtained attorney . hut she afterword represented to him that 6he was not gotng to press the suit, and when she called the case up for trial his attorneys withdrew from the case without notifying him of this action. He and Mrs Lewis, he says, were living together an man and wife at the time of the trial and have lived together as such since