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CHANCERY COURT DISPOSES OF MANY CASES IN APRIL TERM Several Divorces Granted and Decrees by Default Were Common in Session Just Ended. During the three days in which Chancery court was in session last week Chancellor J. D. Shaver disposed of many cases that were on the docket for a hearing during the April term. In the case of Lillie Wilson vs. F. F. Wilson, a decree in divorce was granted the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. Arlie Johnson was grarted a divorce from Tol Johnson on the same ground, and the same decree was granted in the case of S. D. Fite vs. Bessie E. Fite. In the case of N. Hoyle vs. Ida Hoyle the plaintiff was granted a divorce on the ground that the defendant had a living husband, undivorced, at the time of her marriage to the plaintiff. Margaret Ellis was granted a divorce from Boyd Ellis on the ground of indignities to person. Decrees by default were granted in the following cases: H. R. Martin vs. C. M. Daucett et al.; C. L. Smith vs. Emma L. Schwertfeger; C. A. Campbell vs. W. H. Johnson; Mena land and Improvement Co., vs. J. A. Yeates and wife; W. M. Bronston vs. J. W. Loewen and wife, E. F. Hoffman vs. J. A. and Lizzie Lester; J. C. Martiny vs. John F. Bowlin; A. K. Fretz vs. W. S. Jones; F. M. Reeves vs. Heirs of John Dermott; L. G. Cole vs. J. E. and Maggie Schooley; L. A. Harman vs. Virgil and Annie Embry; Wyss Lumber & Trading Company vs. E. B. Cox and G. B. Baker; M. A. Stratton vs. J. P. Stone; John Shibley vs. Ella Stoddard, et al, and City of Mena vs Nora Jones. Minor Pipkin as receiver for the State Bank of Grannis filed his final report which was accepted and the receiver discharged. The case of E. T. Roach vs. W. A. Eads and A. C. Bratcher was dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff. Likewise the case of E. B. Ashmore vs. Lloyd Board was dismissed without prejudice at the cost of the plaintiff. Among the last cases considered by the Chancellor was that of Effie Foster vs. Albert Foster, in which the prayer for a divorce was denied for want of equity.