Van Gelder v. Van Gelder

Appellant and respondent were married at Bellingham, July 26,1907. Both had been previously married and each was possessed of some property, appellant having, as the trial judge found, about $10,000, and respondent about $2,500. The property had never been commingled, and was owned separately at the time the decree was entered. The parties came together through correspondence, following an advertisement inserted by appellant in a spiritualistic j ournal published in Chicago, stating that he desired to secure a housekeeper. There is nothing in the findings of the court to indicate that…