MARRIAGE, An interlocutory order for divorce was granted by his Honour, Judge Milton D. Purdy, in the U. 8. Court, on Monday morning to Mrs.
Lakanilaw Castro, petitioner, age Dr. Frederica Castro, on grounds of desertion.
In_ presenting petitioner's case, Mr. S.A. Moss told the Court that his client had been married in September, 1918, to a young Filipino whose parents had thereafter whisk ced him off to America as a student, from that time on hearing.
further from him. Mr. Boss ted out to the Court that these student runaway marriages had become so prevalent in the Philippine Islands that a law had bern passed prohibiting them without _public notice three or four days ahead of the ceremony.
Tu evidence by Mrs. Castro arid by Dr, Honorio Evangelista and Mr. Tauro Cartagena, it was: brought. out that petitioner had been married about 5 o'clock on the evening of September 23, 1918,-in Manila following which' the bride and groom had each gone to their respective! homes. When the groom did not return that night or the following. day, a search was commenced by petitioner.and her brother, in the course of which it was revealed that! defendant had hoon sent away from ort Manila by his parents. From that time on, petitioner had had no word from him, although he had finished his medical school work and returned to practics medicine in the Islands some yours ago Plaintiff at the present time is a resident of Shang: hai. Defendant had been notified on March 19, 1928, of the forthcoming action against him and Mr. Moss stated that no reply hiad been received from him.
His Honour ordered that an interlocutory wonder should be drawn
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