Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-08-15
In THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Sltting As A Court of Equity.
:. No. 1882 Equity.
Pauline Berrum Kelly, Plaintiff.
John P. Kelly, Defendant.
Order of Publication

Inc oDJect OF this suit is to obtain
Tor the plaintiff, Pauline Berrum
Kelly, a decree that the ceremony of
marriage entered into on the second
day of May, A. D., 1885, by the
plaintiff and the defendant may be
declared a nullity and void, and the
Bill prays also for such other and
further relief as the plaintiff NAV
require.
The Bill states in substance: That
the plaintiff, Pauline Berrum Kelly,
Is a resident of the District of Co
lumbia and that the defendant is a
nonresident of the State of Mary
land, his whereabouts being unknown,
and that the defendant is sued in
his own right, that on, to wit, the
second day of May, A. d. 1885, the
plaintiff and defendant went through
a form of marriage ceremony in
Silver Spring, Montgomery County,
State of Maryland, that said mar.
riage ceremony was performed while
the plaintiff was under the influence
of Intoxicating liquor, and her men
tai faculties so stupefed as to be
utterly incapable of having a full
appreciation and realization of what
it meant, and such fact, together
with other conditions and cir.
cunstances, said marriage ceremony
is void and nullity, that no chill
dren have been born as result of
said ceremony and that the plaintiff
and defendant lived together on one
occasion, but since that time, the
plaintiff and defendant have not CO.
habited together, that ON the said
second day of May, 1885, at about
the hour of one P. M. the plaintiff,
being encouraged by several friends
and acquaintance, consumed alcoholic
drinks in large quantities, and con-
tinued so consuming said alcoholic
drinks until a few minutes prior to
the ceremony at six P. M. on said
day, and that as a result of the
plaintiffs indulgence in said alco-
holic drinks, her mental faculties be
came stupefed and she was incapable
of comprehending the meaning or
consequences of her act, and that the
interest of the plaintiff and defend
ant prior to the said second day of
May, 1885, was impersonal and that
there never had been any suggestion
of marriage, and that she had not
been in the company of the defendant
except with other friends, and that
by reason of the plaintiffs mental
condition, brought about as result
of her over-indulgence in alcoholic
drinks, she was incapable of knowing
the legal consequences naturally de-
ducable from the marriage ceremony,
and that she is advised that she is
entitled to a decree annulling and
setting aside the pretended mar
riage.
The Bill then prays:
% That the ceremony of mar
riage entered into on the second day
of May, A. D.. 1885, between the
plaintiff and defendant, may be de-
clared a nullity and void.
(2) That the plaintiff may have
such other and further relief as her
case may require.
It is thereupon this 18th day of
July, 1885, by the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, sitting as a
Court of Equity, and by authority
thereof adiudged and ordered that
the plaintiff by publishing a copy OF
this order in some newspaper printed
and published in said Montgomery
County once in each of four sue
cessive weeks before the 18th day of
August, 1885, give notice to the said
absent defendant, John P. Kelly,
whose whereabouts are unknown and
whose residence is unknown of the
object and substance of this bill,
warning him to be and appear in
this Court, in person or by solicitor,
on or before the 4th day Of Sep
TENDER, 1895, and to answer the
said bill and abide by and perform
such decree as may be passed therein.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.
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