Lightnin'

Lightnin' has the young man come to his hotel to find his wife who is seeking a divorce. He talks to the two who obviously are in love but they get in a tiff and the young man says "OK, I am leaving" and Lightnin' whispers to wife to call him back, and he has a heart-to-heart sit-down and the couple leaves with their marriage saved. Along the California-Nevada border, chronically-lazy Spanish-American War veteran Bill Jones, nicknamed "Lightnin'" because he moves and acts so cautiously, lives in a hotel run by his wife and grown daughter Milly. The hotel is frequented by married women from California who are seeking a quick divorce as Nevada residents, but find that they must endure lectures from liquor-loving Bill on the sanctity of marriage. Another resident is John Marvin, a young lawyer wanted for embezzlement, who manages to evade arrest warrants by sheriffs from both states by strategically moving back and forth across the California-Nevada line. The long-suffering Mrs. Jones decides to divorce Bill after he refuses to sign papers to sell the hotel to Thomas, a speculator who is offering stock instead of cash for the hotel. Bill eventually saves his marriage and the hotel by proving in court that Thomas is a crook who was planning to use phony stock for the purchase. He also helps prove that John is innocent of the embezzlement charge, thus enabling John to marry Milly, with whom he has fallen in love.