Clackamas County OR Archives Divorce.....Scramlin, Alma - Scramlin, Russell December 24, 1926
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Canby Herald December 31.1926
mrs Scramlin gets Divorce Asked For
Cash Allowance Is reduced by Judge campbell in Circuit Court
Long Litigation Ends
Court holds That Divorced Wife Took Property To Whizh She was Not Entitled 
Valued $115.
The Scramlin divorce case at Macksberg,which was tried out in circuit court at 
Oregon City a few weeks ago,was finally brought to a termination last Thursday 
when Mrs.Alma Scramlin,the plaintiff,was given a decree of divorce from her 
husband,Russell Scramlin,and awarded $5,885 cash alimony by Judge campbell.
the decision was reached after much argument on the part of attorneys for the 
plaintiff and defendant.testimony,it is said,was introduced at the trial to 
show that Mrs,Scramlin,when she moved out of the Scramlin home,took with her a 
number of articles to which she was not entitled.this reduced the stipulated 
allowance of $6000 in the sum of $115.
mrs.Scramlin,however,denies having taken anything that did not belong to 
her.the furniture,she says,was awrded by the court,and after moving 
this,together with her belongings from the house where she had resided with 
her former husband,his father,Geo.Scramlin,she contends,claims such articles 
as the washing machine,bath tub,oil stove and garden tools,which had been in 
Mrs.Scramlin's posession ever since her marriage to Russel 
Scramlin.Mrs.Scramlin also denies taking the field glasses in question and 
says she knows nothing of them.
While the defendant was being questioned in court,mrs.Scramlin and others who 
were there as her witnesses,say:Judge campbell called a recess,and made the 
statement that he was going to give Mrs.Scramlin a divorce and her share of 
the property,which he did.
When the case was tried before Judge campbell some little time ago it was 
bitterly fought.theplaintiff claimed that she had been physically attacked by 
her husband,and that he had refused almost from their marriage to take her 
out.The husband denies the charges and asserted that she suffered from mental 
aberrations which caused the trouble.
Following the stipulation in court regarding financial settlement,it is said 
there arose a dispute regarding the ownership of considerable household 
goods.Included in the items was a gasoline engine alleged to belong to 
Geo.Scramlin,father of the defendant husband,a bath tub which belonged to the 
house,a pair of field glasses,a part of the estate of the ex husbands 
grandmother,and other articles.the outcome was that Judge Campbell held that 
Mrs.Scramlin had taken the articles valued at $115 to which she was not 
entitled.If she returns the fiel dglasses she is to receive from mr.Scramlin 
the sum of $25.00.
When the case was tried in court a few weeks ago the room was filled with 
people living in the Macksberg district.Quite a number of those in attendance 
at the trial were called upon as witnesses.Theplaintiff also called a number 
of witnesses from the neighborhood where they had resided.
mr.Scramlin recently fell heir to the estate of his grandmother,which includes 
considerable land in the Macksberg community and other property.from this he 
is to pay the divorced wife the sum of $5,885,as decreed by the circuit judge

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