Given $20,000 Alimony

Mrs. Susie A. Halliday nee Clark was granted a divorce from her husband, Louis W. Halliday, on Wednesday by Judge Kinne and was given the custody of her two children and permanent alimony of $20,000. The ground on which the divorce was granted was extreme cruelty. Besides the permanent alimony, $250 was allowed for solicitors fee and $70 for expenses and costs. Halliday was married to Miss Susie Clark in January 1888, while a student here. The marriage was solemnized by Justice Griffin, of Ypsilanti. Their married life was not a happy one and in September, 1892, she filed her bill for divorce. In the bill she charged he used coarse and brutal languïge to her, that he had threatened to kill her, and that he was addicted to the use of morphine and had become a drunkard, that she had been compelled to have him arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and that he had compelled her to move twenty-one times in one year during their married life. She also charged that he had not done a single hour's work for compensation during their married life, and that the only thing that occupied his time was his personal appearance. The bill also sets forth that he is entitled to one-fifth of an estáte of $2,000,000 on his mother's death. The bill was served on him, and his appearance entered through his solicitor, D. Cramer. Charles H. Kline was solicitor for Mrs. Hailiday.