The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-02
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LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.

LIBEL FOX DIVORCE.
WHEREAS, Ann E. Phillips Of SALISBURY in
the County of Bennington and State Of Vermont
on the 3lSt day of January A D., 1891, duly filed
in the office ofthe clerk Of said County Court az
Bonn ngton in said County of Bennington, her
libel for divorce from and against Nathan Phil
lips of parts unknown TO said libeilant, without
this Sta =,
sETTING FORTH, and the substanc, OF said
libel is as follows, viz:
That she is aud ever has been u resident Of
Sha tsbury aforesaid; that on tie 18th day Of
April, 1877 at White Greek in the County Of
Washington in the State of New York. SAID petit
TONER. then bearing ne maiden name of Ann
Eliza Becker, was duly aud lawfully married to
one Nathan Phillips, by hugh Iaoor. esquire, II
justice of the peace duly authorized to solem-
niZe marriage at White Creek aforeSalh
That shortly after lid marriage said petitioner
and her husband went to reside at said Shafts
bury and there continued to reside as husband
and wife for alb JuJ eight years; that duIng all
the time since .aId marriage to tina present time
said petitioner has observed all her marriage
covenants:
That there have hern born Io said petitioner ~
the frEit OF said marriage, three children, Charlie,
Willie aud Carrie, aged resp, ctvey, eighteen,
fifteen and thirteen years
That on the 18th day of June 1852, the said
Nail han Phillips wlfully deserted said petitioner
without cause or provuc tion and has never since
returned to reside with said petitioner, haa never
since contributed anything toward the Support of
said titloner or her children, aud for more than
seven years last past has been absent and un-
heard of
Wherefore, said petitioner prays that, for the
causes alb I'VE set forth, the BOMBS of mutrimony
between her and th- SAID Nathan Phillips be sew
cred aud dissolved and u bill Of divorce to said
petitioner granted together with the care and
custody II said MINOR children
And also representing and aTarring that the
said pc itionec. Nathan Phillips, Is without the
State of Verm mt and in parts unknown to said
petitioner
And it appearing that the said Nathan Phillips
is without this State, so that asummons canaot be
served upon hun, 1T Is ORDERED that notice Ufthe
pendercy of said libel be gwen to the aiG Nathan
Phillips, by publishing the substance thereof with
this order ihree weeks successfully in the Ben
niugtcn BANNER a newspaper printed at Ben
ninRton, III the county Of Bennington
aforesaid tina last Of which publications
shall be at least six weeks previous to the next
stated term OF said Bennington County Court, to
be holden at Manchester IN said county, On tie
First Tuesday OF June, A. D.. 1894, in which court
and at which term thereof, said libel is peuding.
AND FURTHERMORE. the said Nathan Phil
lips is hereby and by the publication hereof in
accordance with the provisions Of the statute in
such case made and provided, NOTIFIED and
REQUIRED to appear before the Honorable
Couuty Court at The next stated term thereof, TO
be holden ut Manchester within ana Tor the
County Of Bennington aforesaid, on the First
Tuesday of June, A. ID 1924. upon the first day
of said term, then and there in said cohrt, to
make answer to the sand libel and petition OF the
said Ann Phi illips and to stand 20 and abide such
order. judgme nj and decree thereon as TO said
court snail seem meet the premises considered.
HARRY I, CUSHMAN, CLERK.
CHARLES IL. DARLING, Atty for Libellant.
Dated at Bennington in SAID County of Ben
nington, this s3d day OF February, A. d. 1894.