The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-08-02
CHARLES ". CLAGETT, Solicitor
for Plaintiff.
OKpER OF L OBLIGATION
MARTHA COLLINS, Plaintiff,
VS..
ROBERT L. COLLINS, Defendant.
In the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, nd.
No. $3.50 Equity

THE object Of this suit is to secure a
I divorce vinculo matrimonii by
the plaintiff. Martha Collins, from the
defendant, Robert l. Collins The bill
| of complaint states that the plaintiff,
| Martha Co line, is a ciliZan of the
| United States and Of the State of Mary
| land, and has been for three years last
past a resident of Prince Georges
! County and of said state. That the
! defendant RI bert l.. Collins. is . citi
Zen of the United State and non resi-
dent Of the State 'of Maryland That
the said plaintiff and defendant were
united in the bonds of matrimony at
Rockville, Maryland, on the 18th day
of March, 1910, and that the only living
offspring of said marriage is Elinor
| Clara Collins, now six years of age and
residing with the plaintiff in the home
of her father st Silecia, Prince Georges
County, Maryland, where the plaintiff
and her said child have continuously
resided since the month of May, 1915
That the conduct of said plaintiff to-
| ward her said husband, Robert l..
Collins, has always been kind, affection
ate and above reproach; that the said
Robert l.. Collins, without just cause
or reason, abandoned and deserted her
and that such abandonment has con
tinued uulnteriup.edly for III least three
years AID is deliberate and tinai, and
that the s"nara'icn IF III" patii..e Is be-
y0nh Any REASONABLE 'Xp,cth,I al of
recorc liatinn That the said 'irfcnG-
ant cGHabit.ted viii tAu ia,i:'N IL the
District of [o'um'.ia from 81. date If
their marriage until April 7, 1918, aud
.uaL slit has uuvGr seen Saii defendant
since sid date That she is informed
and b l:cvrS that said defendant. with
gu! her Knowledge aud without making
any arrangements for the care and
man enance of the plaintiff and their
infant chi d, enlisted on the 18th day
of June 1915, in the United States Army
and.shor'ly thereafter went rs a mem
bei of said Army to the Philippine
Islands; that from the time said defend
ant deserted and aband oned the plant
if and her said infant child up to The
present time he has failed to provide
them with a home or maintenance. and
hat the only contribution he has made
toward their support has been an allot-
ment of eight dollars per month made
out Of his salary by the ar Depart
ment, which allotment Was paid by the
Department for twenty months prior to
October l, 1917; that upon the exoira-
lion of said allotment the defendant
ceased to contribute anything to the
support and maintenance of the plant
if and her said child. That upon the
desertiouand abandonment of the plaint-
if by the deft ndart on April Z, 1915,
she and her said child were left in des-
Iitute circumstances and she was COM
PEELED to return to her fathers home in
Prince Georges County, Maryland,
where she and her said child have ever
since resided.
The bill of complaint prays that the
plaintiff be divorced vinculo matri
moni from the defendant, Robert L.
Collins, that the plaintiff be awarded
the custody of her infant child, Elinor
Clara Collins; for general relief and an
order of publication against the defend
ant, who is Il nonresident of the State
of Maryland.
1t is thereupop, this 10Th day OF July
1918, ordered by the Cucuit Court for
Prince Georges County, Maryland, in
Equity, that the plaintiff, by causing
copy of this order To be inserted III
some wspaper, published in said
Prince GcuIge's County, once in each
of four successive wee ks before the 18th
day of August 1918, give notice to said
absent defendant of the object and sub
stanC" Of this BIZ, and warming him to
:. .nptar in this court lii person or by
81 lic;tor on or before the 9th day or
September mex, to show cause, II any
~ne has, Why GccICe ought rot to be
passed as prayed.
BY the Court
SUMMERFIELD d HALL, Clerk
OF the Circuit Cour, for Prince Georges
County.
True Copy Tes: s. D. Hall. Clerk.
July 10 1918, ST.