The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-20
SARAH ]. CAPLE
Order Of Publieation
NTo. s24O EQUITY

I Il.
In tie Circuit Cont for Carroll County,
Sitting as a Court Of Equity.
Alice Frances Payne. Plaintiff, vs. VIII
lard Ernest Payne Defendant.
The object of this suit is to procure
decree of divorce vinculo matrimOnii by
Alice Frances Payne, paintiff, from VII
lard e. Payne, defendant, the bill states
that the plaintiff and defendant were mar
/ ried February a 1905, at Westminster,
Maryland, BY Reverend F. q. Walker, pas
Tor of the Union Street Methodist Episco-
pal church i(coloretl) of Westminster, Car
roll county, Md; that said plaintiff and
defendant resided for period of three or
four years in the City of Westminster
where they kept house; that subsequently
the plaintiff, on or about the year 1910,
stored their furniture IN Westminster, Md.
and the plaintiff and defendant went 10
Ifarper's Ferry, West Virginia. thence to
Hagerstown, Md, thence 10 Philadelphia,
Pa thence to Atlantic City, New Jersey,
which latter city prior TO the 10th day of
of August, 1916 the defendant committed
the crime of adultery OF divers women
whose names to the plaintiff are unknown;
that upon the discovery of said adultrous
He0ndjict on the parf Of the defendant the
plaintiff left and abandoned the defendant
aud has not resided with him since hut
has maintained and provided for herself by
her own employment that the said piaint1n
has been employed in households and in
factories in the State Of New York and In
tile City of New York since the year 1915;
that all the while the plaintin had owned
all the furniture and household belongings
tnat were a part of the household eanip-
ments OF the plaintiff and defendant in This
cause which the plaintiff stored In the
City of Westminster, Nd, in the summer
of the year 1910 and in which said city
of Westminster, Md. the plaintiff has kept
stored her household furniture and has
maintained and claimed the City Of West
minister, Carroll county, Md as her home
and so now maintains said City of West
munster is her home and place of reSidenceE
that the conduct of said plaintiff toward
her husband has always been above re-
preach and the separatinn between them
is beyond any expectation of reconciliation
and has continued for more than a period
of three years; that Che defendant has no
property nor any means whatsoever and
has not supported the plaintiff in this cause
since the year 1916: that no children were
born of said union Of the plaintiff and de-
feBdant III this cause; that the defendant
Willard Il. Payne. is a npn- resident of the
Safe OF Maryland and when last heard OF
was a resident OF Atlantic City. in the
State Of New Jersey; and the bill prays
for divorce d yjnculo matrimOnii and for
such aud other further relief as the case
may re9uire
in the year nineteen hundred and twenty,
BY the Circuit Court for Carroll County,
sitting as a Court of Equity, ordered that
the Plaintiff by causing copy OF this
order 10 be inserted in some newspaper
published in Carroll County for four sue
cessiye weeks before the 30th day of Au-
gust. 1920 give notice TO William u. Payne,
non -rcsidenf defendant, of the object and
substance of this Bill warning him to APP
pear in this Court in person or by Solicit
tor on before the 10th day of September.
next, TO show cause, II any he has, why
decree ought not to. be passed as prayed.
EDWARD %. CASH. Clerk
EDWARD q. CASH, Clerk
Charles o. Clemson, Solicitor,
Westminster, Md.
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