The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-11-14
unmarried man, and for all proper re-
lief general and special.

Linnie Hardin, In Equity.
&
Maggie Campbell, Dts,
This is novel proceeding, in that
plaintiff seek to get release, or quiz
etus from two women, at one and the
same time-so far as the court knows,
1T is without precedent. The plain
tiff, with frankness unusual in the
courts of law, or courts of love. comes
and in his petition says
81 will a round. unvarnished tale de-
liver of my whole course of love-"
1t appears from the pleadings and
the evidence in the case, that some
thirty or thirty-one years, ago, glowing
not wisely but too WE'LL" he wooed and
won dusky maiden answering to the
name of Linnie. He said to her
"Come, live with me and be my love"
''And we will all the pleasures prove"
and she came The matrimonial knot
was duly and regularly tied and all
went merry as marriage belr'' for
the space of one year, when hearken-
ing to the voice and seductive words OF
a gay Lothario, she turned her back to
her first love, who was left lamenting,
go! Woe is me, to have seen what l
have SEEM"
A suit was brought for the purpose
of dissolving the matrimonial bonds be-
tween them, but for some cause the
proceedings never reached to a judy
ment and of the failure to enter a
judgment, the plaintiff was ignorant.
In the meantime plaintiff lived and
luxuriated in single blessedness, while
his quondam bride, believing that she
was free, remarked and became the
mother of children-so numerous, that
witness says, ''there is so many of
them, you would have to blow a horn
to get them together" Time passed
on, some dozen or more years, when
plaintiff being possessed again of the
grand passion, sought and under the
forms of law, secured the companion
ship of one Maggie Campbell. Here
again, the evidences discloses, as the
poet had long, ago, declared
''The course of true love never did
run smooth" For some cause not
shown, Maggie has left plaintiff discon-
solate, and hied away to Africa's Mecca,
the city of Indianapolis, state of In
diana, "where all good niggers CO."
before or after death. Now, in this
case the plaintiff through his counsel
is piteously wringing his hands, tear
ing his hair and eXclaiming.-
"What mighty ills have not been
done by woman?'
''Who betrayed the capitol? woman!
"Who lost Mark Antony a world? a
woman!
"Who was the cause of long ten
years war and laid at last old Troy in
ashes? woman!
obstructive, damnable, deceitful
womanp'
The father of Linnie's children is
dead, and she was never legally mar
ried to him. Maggie has absconded
and she and plaintiff were never legally
married. The plaintiff comes into court
for relief. He sees Maggie on one
side, Linnie on the other, the peniten-
tiary in front and Linnie's children all
around He claims that he is dazed
and bewildered by the matrimonial
complexities, which encompass him all
about, and he asks an adjudication as
to his status and especially a release
from the disabilities, which interfere
with his freedom of action in the fu-
ture.
The cause having been heard and
duly considered, the court is of the
opinion, that his relation with Maggie
are of no legal effect, except to the
extent of the criminal law, which may
or may not be ivoked, in view of the
peculiar and mitigating circumstances
attending the case. The said marriage
with Maggie is annulled.
The court is Of the opinion, that in
view of lapse of time, since Linnle left
him and the membranes which she
has placed upon his property rights in
her, it would be unjust to burden him
with them. 1t is therefore adjudged
that the nuptial knot, which tied them
together be now united, and that he be
restored to all the rights, privilege and
joys of an unmarried man, but with
the injunction that this does not in
clude the right to two wives at one