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STATE OF ------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------ Present and presiding, the Hon. A. J. Vinje, Circuit
Judge, this 13th day of April, 1904. The issue joined in this action coming on for trial in
said term and having been tried before the court, Clarence C. Coe. &
Arthur E. Coe appearing for the plaintiff and James Robbins for the
defendant, after hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties, the
arguments of counsel and being advised in the premise, I, the Judge
before Whom the same was tried, do decide and find, that the allegations
of the complaint are proven and true and that the plaintiff, the mother
is the fit and proper person to have the care and custody of the
Children and supervision of their education, except of Robert aged
years and that the father is the fit and proper person to have
the care and custody of Robert. And I find and decide as conclusions of law, that the
plaintiff is entitled to divorce from the bonds of matrimony as prayed
in the complaint, and that the plaintiff be awarded the care and custody
of the minor children Dora J., Bennie & Clarence and that the
defendant be awarded the care and custody of the minor child Robert. Therefore, on motion of Clarence C. Coe & Arthur E.
Coe Attorneys for the plaintiff, it is adjudged and determined by the
Court that the bonds of matrimony heretofore subsisting between the
plaintiff Jennie M. Knutson and the defendant, Louis Martin Knutson be
and the same are hereby wholly dissolved. That the custody of Dora J. Knutson, Bennie Knutson and
Clarence R. Knutson, be and is hereby awarded to the plaintiff. That the care and custody of Robert I. Knutson be and is
hereby awarded to the defendant.
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STATE
OF --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JENNIE
M. KNUTSON ---- PLAINTIFF
VS LOUIS
MARTIN KNUTSON – DEFENDANT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE
ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, BY
JAMES ROBBINS HIS ATTORNEY ANSWERING THE COMPLAINT OF THE PLAINTIFF IN
THIS ACTION; DENIES EACH AND EVERY ALLEGATION IN SAID COMPLAINT
CONTAINED EXCEPT THAT DEFENDANT ADMITS THE MARRIAGE OF PLAINTIFF AND
DEFENDANT, THE ISSUE THEREOF AND THE RESIDENCE OF THE PARTIES HEREIN AS
ALLEGED IN PLAINTIFFS COMPLAINT.
STATE
OF
LOUIS MARTIN KNUTSON BEING FIRST DULY SWORN SAYS THAT HE IS THE
DEFENDANT IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION AND HAS READ THE ABOVE AND
FORGOING ANSWER AND KNOWS THE CONTENTS THEROF AND THAT THE SAME IS TRUE
TO HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE.
SUBSCRIBED
AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME
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STATE OF
First;
That on the 15 day
of
That both plaintiff and defendant have resided in Barron
County State of Wisconsin,
more than one year immediately proceeding the commencement of this
action. That the issue of said marriage is Austin M. aged 18,
Louis E. aged 16, Jessie H. aged 14, Robert I. aged 12., Dora J. aged 7,
Bennie aged 4 & Clarence
R. age 11 mo. That plaintiff is informed and believes that the defendant
at diverse times between the 25th day of Nov. 1902 and the
commencement of this action committed adultery with one Rena Lien. That the several acts of adultery were so committed
without the procurement or connivance of the plaintiff and that she has
never forgiven or condoned the same nor voluntarily cohabited with him
since she obtained knowledge of said offence and that on and between the
1st day of January, 1897 and the 1st day of
January, 1899 he committed diverse acts of adultery with a
neighbor without the connivance or procurement of this
plaintiff which acts were condoned and have been revived by said
adultery with Rena Lien. And for a second cause of action, the plaintiff alleges
that plaintiff and defendant were married and have resided as above set
forth. That
plaintiff has always treated the defendant with kindness and
consideration but that the defendant disregarding his marriage vows and
his duties toward this plaintiff has treated this plaintiff cruelly and
unhumanly in this to wit: That
some years since and about the year 1897, he visited, paid attention to
and improperly corresponded with the neighbor above mentioned to the
neglect of this plaintiff and when his relations with her were
discovered he promised to cease his attentions to others and be true to
this plaintiff. That
some time thereafter he became unduly friendly with Rena Lien above
mentioned: That he frequently visited her and often took her riding with
him alone for long distances in lonely places by day and at night; That
he persistently and familiarly corresponded with her, writing and
receiving improper letters and when detected told this plaintiff that
she could not prove anything and would neither admit or deny what his
relations with her were: That they visited distant places for no other
purpose than to be with each other and free from over sight, stopping
thus at the hotel and where
defendant was expostulated with by plaintiff for his said attentions
refusing to cease or modify them until the plaintiff was unable to
longer endure it and ceased to cohabit with him and plaintiff verily
believes that her health was being injured and her nerves shattered by
his said treatment: That
defendant forcibly took from her a part of the clandestine
correspondence with Rena Lien above mentioned and at one time after she
had so ceased to cohabit with him and in the summer of 1903 he broke
open her bed room door by force when she was alone inside to show his
power over her and forced his presence upon her. WHEREFORE
the plaintiff demands judgment that the bonds of matrimony subsisting
between plaintiff and defendant be wholly dissolved and for divorce
therefrom and that the care and custody of said children be awarded to
this plaintiff and that she have such other order, judgment and relief
as may be just and equitable. Dated Oct. 9th,
1903
Clarence C. Coe & Arthur E. Coe, Jennie M.
Knutson being first duly sworn on oath, says that she is the plaintiff
above named: That she has read the foregoing complaint and knows the
contents thereof and that the same is true to her won [sic] knowledge
except as to those matters therein stated on information and belief and
as to those matters she believes it to be true.
Subscribed
and sworn to before me this 9th day of Oct., 1903.
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