The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-10-26
In the Circuit Court for
DAVID DURHAM

DAVID DURHAM In the Circuit Court for
VS., Hartford county, as
MARY DURHAM Court Of Equity.
THE object OF This suit is to obtain de-
cree diyortng the complainant from
;he defendant, a riHcNio matrimonial.
, The Bill states thai the complainant
and defendant were married N the city of
Baltimore, on or about the year 1864;
that Immediately after the solemnization
of the said marriage the defendant remov-
ed to the house of the complainant to re-
side; that shortly thereafter the conduct
of the defendant became turbulent and vio-
lent, so much so as to render it almost
impossible for the complainant to live
with the Defendant. That at times the
said defendant would break and destroy
the furniture and other property of the
complainant; and that during tie absence
of the complainant the defendant has sold
large amounts Of his property, without
his knowledge and consent, and Jailed to
account to him for the same. That since
the marriage the said defendant has borne
one child, which she has on divers occa-
sions declared not to be the child of the
complainant That the complainant al
ways treated the defendant kindly, with
the hope of retaining her; that she fire.
quently expressed great anxiety for the
injury of the complainant.
The bill then further states that early in
the year 1865 the defendant abandoned
the complainant, and that she has been
ever since uninterruptedly absent, and that
the separation between the complainant
and defendant is final and eyond all rea-
sonable expectation of reconciliation.
The Bill then prays for the passage of
decree divorcing the complainant from
the defendant, vinculo matrimonii, and
for a subpoena against the said defendant,
commanding her to appear in this Court,
in person or by solicitor, on a certain
day, to answer the premises and show
cause, if any she has, why decree should
not pass as prayed.
And forasmuch as the residence of the
defendant is uncertain, and believed to be
beyond the limits of the State of Mary
land, the Bill further prays for an order of
publication warning the said defendant of
the subject and object Of the bill, and COM
handing her to appear in this Honorable
Court, in person or by solicitor, on some
certain day therein named, to answer the
premises and show cause, if any she has,
why decree ought not to pass as prayed;
and on her failure to appear as aforesaid,
that then the bill be taken pro coafesso
against her.
1t is thereupon, this 4th day of August,
1866, adjudged and ordered, that the COM
plainant, by causing copy of this order
to be inserted in some newspaper printed
and published in Hartford county, once a
week in each Of four successive weeks
three months before the seco..d Monday
in February next, give notice to the said
defendant Of the object and substance of
this Bill, and warn her to appear in this
Court, in person or by solicitor, on or
before the said Cd Monday in February
neXt and show cause, if any sn" has, why
decree ought not to pass as ""arcd, and
in dt!au'l thereof said bill Shit be taken
pre- con f~SSo against her.
WV. Fl. pAli&ti ~. Clerk.
True copy. FEET
ocllZ wa. II D4Il.as. Clerk.