The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-07-30
Order Of Publication
TITO. $40 EQUITY.

TITO. $40 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Conre for Carroll County,
Sitting as a Court of Equity.
Alice Frances Payne Plaintiff, VS.. Will
lard ernest Payne, Defendant
The object of this suit is TO procure a
decree OF divorce Il yinculo matrimonii by
Alice Frances Payne, plaintiff, from VIII
lard u. Payne, defendant, the bill states
that the plaintiff and defendant were mar
ried February f. 1905, at Westminster
Maryland. by Reverend T.. G. Walker, pas
tor of the Union Street Methodist Episco-
pal CheFch, (eolored) of Westminster, Car
roll county, Nd; that said plaintiff and
defendant resided for a 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 pIailittff and defendant went to
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, thence to
BageTstown Md, thence TO pniiadelphias
which latteEacity 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 aduItrous
conduct on tile part of the defendant the
plaintiff left and abandoned the defendant
and has not resided with Inn since but
has maintained and provided for herself by
her own emf loy inent that the said plaintiff
has been employed in households and in
factories in the State of New York and in
that all the while the plaintiff had owned
all the furniture and household belongings
tnat were a part of the household euuip-
ments of the plaintiff and defendant in this
cause which the plaintiff stored in the
City of Westminster. Md, 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
minister is her home and place of residence;
that the conduct of said plaintiff toward
her husband has always been above re-
prOach and the separation between them
is beyond any expectation of reconciliation
aud has continued for more than period
of three years: that the defendant has no
property nor any means whatsoever and
has not supported the plaintiff in this cause
since the year 1916; that no children We're
born OF said union of the plaintiff and de
PENDANT in this cause that the defendant.
Willard e. Payne, is a non 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 a divorce .vinculo matrimonii and for
such and other further relief as the case
may require
It is thereupon this Goth day of July.
ia the year nineteen hundred and twenty,
by the Circuit Court for Carroll County
sitting as Court of Equity ordered that
the Plaintiff byscausing a copy of this
order to be inserted In some newspaper
puDllSneQ4 III NofFO4l 0OuHly IOf IOuF SUE
.cessive weeks before the Both day of Au-
gust, 1920, give notice to William e. Payne,
nonresident 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, if any he has, why a
decree ought not to be passed as prayed
EDWARD o. CASH, Clerk.
True Copy Test
Charles @. Clemson, Solicitor
Westminster, Nd.
july S0-5t