He Sold the Homestead and Left His Family Behind
A divorced rancher liquidates his property and disappears, prompting talk of a contempt charge.
John H. Soli, a rancher who was divorced from his wife last May, has sold his homestead relinquishment and departed from the country, leaving his wife and children shy of their share of the property. Officers of the law would like to see him on a charge of contempt of court in thus disposing of his property without giving the wife a share.
“Officers of the law would like to see him on a charge of contempt of court in thus disposing of his property without giving the wife a share.”
In 1908, a divorced woman had limited claim on property her husband could liquidate and carry away. The item reads like a modern support-enforcement case in miniature—except that the remedy then was a contempt charge against a man already gone.
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