Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-02-10
LIONEL II. BANNER

Brighton in the County of Essex. ,
has filed in the office of the clerk of
Essex County Court her libel for
divorce, setting forth in substance
that on the 9th day of December,
1914 she was legally married to Lion
ell H. Banner, then of Brighton,ln the
County of Essex and State of Yer.
mont. That during the coverture
she On her part, has faithfully kept
the marriage covenant and performed
all the duties pertaining thereto; but
that the said libellee on his part has
not kept the marriage covenant, but
has violated the same, for that the
said libellee, during said coverture
did at Berlin in the County of Coos,
and State of New Hampshire, and at
divers other places on to wit, the 1st.
day Of June, A. D. 1917 and on other
days and times, commit the crime Of
adultery; that on to wit, the list. day
of January, A. D., 1917, and for a
long time thereafter, to wit; from
said first day of January A. D. 1917,
to wit; the 26th day of August A. D.
1919 the said libellant continually
treated the libellant with intolerable
severity, and that on the day and
year last aforesaid, the Libellant, by
reason of such intolerable severe.
treatment, wat forced to and did
cease to live and co-habit with the
said libellee.
And the Libellant further AYERS
that she is at present without employ
ment, that she has no mean with
which to support herself and her mi
nor child hereinafter mentioned ex-
cept by the fruit of her labor; that
she has a mother who is totally blind
and who is partially dependent upon
ney or property with which to prose-
cute this libel or attend the hearings
on alimony and that the iibellee
ought to be ordered to pay to her or
to her attorneys a reasonable sum.
of money for the support of herself
and said minor child and for the ex-
pense of this litigation.
And the Libellant further shows
that she has a child, the fruit of said
marriage who is still living, whose
name and age is as follows: Phyllis
Elaine Banner, aged four years. And
that the interest of said child would
be best promoted by granting to the
libellant the care and custody during
her minority.
That she is a resident Of the town
of Brighton in the County of Essex
and has resided in said County Of Es-
ex for the sixteen years last past and
that she has not lived or cohabited
with the said libellee since to wit, the
26th day Of August, A. D., 1919.
AVID tho 1iha1fanS f,,r&hn> oua~<
that the libellee is a man of intemper-
ance habits, associates with immoral
women and that by reason Of his i'm
moral and Incorporate habits he is
not a fit person to have the care and
upbringing of said minor child, and
the libellant further aver that the Ii
belize is able to and does earn at least
fifty dollars per week.
WHEREFORE, the Libellant prays
that the bond of matrimony between
her and the said libellee may be dis
solved and a bill of divorce granted
unto her; and that she may have the
custody of said minor child during
her minority and during
the tendency hereof the Libellee may
be ordered and decreed to pay to the
Libellant a reasonable sum of money
each week for the support of herself
and said minor child and a further
reasonable sum of money for defray-
ing the expense of this litigation and
that he may be further enjoined from
in any way interfering with the Libel
liant or her ARE and custody of said
minor child or for doing either or
both of them violence or threatening
4lo-o ,,,o1o.oo Ill l,,a, A. oo-Io.
cy hereof CT until further order of
he Court, and that upon final dispo-
sition Of this cause the care and rus
tody Of said minor child may be de-
creed to the Libellant herein during
the minority Of said child and for
such sum or sums of money, payable
in such manner as to your Honorable
Court under the circumstances shall
seem meet for the support of herself
and said minor child and for such 9th
er and further relief as to law and
justice may appertain.
Dated at Brighton, in the County
Of Essex this goth day of June, A. D.
1920. 80.
GLADYS NJ. BANNER,
Libellant.
and praying that for the causes afore
said said marriage may be dissolved
and a Bill of Divore granted unto
her, the said LibellanJ.
AND 1T BEING made to appear
verified by affidavit Of the Libellant,
that the said Lionel H. Banner is with
out this State, so that a citation cam
not be served upon him.
THEREFORE, it is ordered that
2 notice of the tendency of said libel
be given him by publication of the
substance thereof, together with this
order, in the Essex County Herald, a
newspaper published at Brighton il
! the County of Essex, three weeks sue
, cessively, the last of which publica-
items to be at least six weeks prior to
the first day of the next term of Es-
5 sex County Court to be held at Guild
: hall, in the County of Essex, on the
4th Tuesday of April, A. D., 1921,
at which time the said Libellee is or
dered to appear, and show cause, if
any he have, why the prayer of said
t petition should not be granted.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND at
Gui1dhall. in the County of Essex.