The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-23

VNO the Honorable Justice of the Supreme Judicial
IL Court next to be holden at Portland within and
for the County of Cumberland on the second Tues
day of October A. d. 1877.
Respectfully represents Lizzie Goday of Portland
in the County of of Cumberland and State of Maine,
That she was lawfully married TO William A, God
ay at Roct port in the Commonwealth of Massachu-
sets, on the first day of October A. ID.
1870 and has had by him two children, both now
ter B. Goday five years DID, That since their inter-
marriage your libeant has conducted herself tow
ards the said William A, Goday chaste, faithful
and afectonate wife; That the said William A God
ay in violation and regardless of his marriage
ant and duty has been guilty of grossand
ment to your libellant.
That said william A. Goday has
constantly, grossly neglected, ill-treated, and
abused your libellant; And that he has been
stantly and habituay used to her and in her pres
ence and hearing, obscene, profane, and threatening
language and has on divers days,and at divers times
committed assault upon the person of your libel
liant and has struck and beaten her and has treated
her with great indignity and has put her in great
bodily PAM so she has endured great suffering, both
in body and mind on account of the violent and abus
i've conduct of the said William A. Goday towards
your hbeant and has by him been put in great dan
And your libellant further shows that on or about
the first of April A. D. 1875. the said William A. God
ay Kicked struck and beat your ibellant, and then
and there wilfully deserted and abandoned your IL
bellant and never returned to her.
And that the condition of the said William A. God.
ay has been and Is such that he is entirely unfit
and her said children.
Whereupon inasmuch as it would be reasonable
and proper, conducive to domestic harmony and con-
sstent with the peace and morality of society your
lbellant prays this Honorable Court to decree d.
vorce from the bonds of matrimony.
And that the Care, custody and education of their
minor children, NellielA Goday and Foster B. Goday
may be decreed to your libelant
That the residence of the said libeee is to your liz
bellant unknown and that she has been unable by
reasonable diligence to ascertain the residence of said
ibellee. Lizzie Goday,
Daniel W. Proctor, Attorney for Libellant,
STATE OF MAINE,
CUMBERLAND, IS.
Lizzie Goday do hereby make oath that the facts
set forth in the foregoing libel are true
Lizzie Goday
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me- this fifteenth
day of August A. D. 1877
Daniel W. Proctor
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, IS.
Supreme Judicial Court in Vacation
Portland Aug. 49, A. d. 1877.
Upon the foregoing LIBEL Ordered, That the Lii
bellant give notice to the said William A. Goday to
appear before the Justice of our Supreme Judicial
Court, to be holden at Portland, within and for the
County of Cumberland, on the second Tuesday OF
said libel and this order thereon three weeks success
lively in the Maine State Press newspaper printed
in Portland, in our County of Cumberland the last
publication to be thirty days at least prior to said
second Tuesday Of October that he may there and
then in said Court appear and show cause il any
he have why the prayer OF said Libeant should not
be granted.
VIM. WRIT vIRGINl s, Justice sd of the the
A true copy of the LIBEL and ORDER OF COURT
thereon.
Attest: F. LITTLEFIELD, Clerk
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