The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-13
DAVIS HAS
HOT TEMPER
He Says so in a Divorce
Petition.
LAWYER TELLS TROUBLES
Former Temporary Judge Prays
Court to Award His Wife
Alimony and Freedom.

Attorney George A. Davis on Satur |
day filed an application to have the
bonds of matrimony existing between
himself and Sarah E. Davis, severed
by due process of the Circuit Court.
His grounds of complaint as stated pos
itively in the petition to Judge Hum
phreys. are extreme cruelty on the part
of Mrs. Davis toward himself, and in
compatibility of temper. He states that
he has for some time suffered from ner-
vous neuralgia, and on account of the
violent tempers which both possess he
is likely to suffer a relapse from his
ailment If he continues to stay under
the same roof with his wife, and has
so been advised by his physicians. Dep
uty Sheriff Chillingworth personally
served the summons upon Mrs. Davis
forth his grounds for cause in the fol-
lowing language:
That the libellant and hbelee were
married at St. John, New Brunswick,
Canada, in August 1886, and they have
since lived together as husband and
wife, for the last five years preceding
this date they have lived together at
Honolulu.
THAT for the past two years, to wit,
from 1899 and 1900. the libellant and
libelee have lived unhappily together.
That during the present month Of Au-
gust the libelee charged the libellant
with having committed adultery in Ho-
nolulu, which accusation is false and
unfounded. The said libelee was there
| by guilty of extreme cruelty towards
the libeuant
That in the month Of December
1899, the libelee threatened to shoot this
libellant; said libellant was very Ill and
suffering intense pain at the time, but
was forced and obliged to leave his
home on account Of the threats and I'M
! proper conduct of the libelee, and only
returned thereto on the advice Of his
physicians and to prevent scandal.
THAT the libelee has refused in the
months of June, July and August, 1900,
to obey the lawful commands and reas-
enable requests of her said husband in
that she has visited friends houses and
people where scandal has been circu-
lated and false statements have been
made to reputable people. which this
libellant forbade her to repeat; she has
persisted in visiting such houses and
! people, and did visit one of them on this
18th day Of August, 1900, whereupon the
!, libellant refused longer to live and CO.
habit with the said libelee.
THAT the said libelee has a violent
! temper, and this libellant is of an excit-
able nature and has, when aroused, a
violent temper, and it is no longer pos
, sible for them to live together as hus-
. band and wife. That this libellant is now
undergoing medical treatment for ner-
vous neuralgia and is ill, and for three
months, during the months of Novem-
! Der and December, 1899, and January,
1900, suffered intense pain, was very i'll
and was in the care of physicians and
, in consequence thereof, was obliged to
leave his home and go to the State of
! California where he got some relief
! Libellant states that if he longer lives
with the libelee he will have a relapse
and is so advised by his physicians
That Hbelee has valuable real estate
! in Honolulu given to her by this libel.
liant, and has bank stock and other
property. That libellant prays that this
court will award the libelee perma-
nent sum to be named by this court as
: alimony, and will take into considera-
ton in naming said sum, the libellant's
obligations and his health. This libel
liant has no unincumbered property ir
! this Territory. The libellant asks thai
! the marriage contract be annulled alb.
solutely and for such other relief as the
court may see fit TO grant"