The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-03-27
EDWARD D. q. ROLLINS, solicitor
Order Of duplication
DIANA FAY NORRIS, by her father
and next friend, JAMES E. NORRIS
Plaintiff,
VS..
LOUIS FRANKLIN ITALIA,
Defendant.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CECIL COUNTY
In EQUITY NO. 57O5

The object of this suit is to have
the marriage between the Plaintiff,
Diana Fay Norris, and the Defen-
dant, Louis Franklin Italia, declar-
ed null and void.
The Bill of Complaint recites that
the Plaintiff, Diana Fay Norris, and
the Defendant, Louis Franklin
Italia, were married in the Town of
Elkton, Cecil County, State of
Maryland, by the Rev. r. ]. Sturgill,
on the 18th day of February, 1912;
that neither of the parties are resi-
dents of this State. The Plaintiff re-
sides at 1929 Madison Street, City
of Chester, State of Pennsylvania,
and the Defendant resides at 9th
and Sproul Streets, clio Sunoco Sta
ton, Chester, Pennsylvania; that
the said Diana Fay Norris was born
on the 25th of November, 1926, and
that the said Louise Franklin Italia
was born on the 18th of August,
1922, and is a minor under the age
of twenty-one years; that neither
of them were Of sufficient legal age
to obtain a license to marry without
the consent of their parents, and
that the consent of their parents
was never obtained before the per-
Torrance of the marriage ceremony
or since; that the said marriage
was never consummated by cohabi-
tation, nor has there ever been at
any time physical intercourse be-
tween the parties hereto, and that
on the day that the said marriage
ceremony was performed the said
Defendant and the said Plaintiff
separated and have not since lived
or cohabited together as man and
wife.
That the said application for Lii
cense to Marry was made by the said
Defendant on the 14th day of Feb
ruary, 1912, wherein he represented
that the Defendant was twenty-one
years of age and that the Plaintiff
was nineteen years of age in order
to obtain said license without pa
rental consent; and that by reason
of the premises the said marriage so
performed was in law null and void
to all intents and purposes whatso-
ever and for the reasons aforesaid
that the same be SO declared. The
Bill then prays for an inquiry into
the hearing and a determination of
the validity of the said marriage and
declaration that the same is con-
trary to the Statutes of Maryland
and null and void to all intents and
purposes whatsoever and for fur
Their relief.
IT is THEREUPON, this 18th
day of March, A. D., 1912, ORDER
ED, BY THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CECIL COUNTY, that the
Plaintiff and James E. Norris, faith
err and next friend of Diana Fay
Norris, by causing a copy Of this
Order to be inserted in some news
paper published in Cecil County,
once in each of four successive
weeks, on or before the 18th day of
April, 1912, giving notice to the
said absent Defendant, Louis Frank
lin Italia, of the object and sub
stance Of this suit and warning him
to be and appear in this Honorable
Court either in person or by Soil
citor on or before the End day of
May next, and show cause if any he
may have, why the relief hereinbe-
fore mentioned should not be grant
ed as prayer.
WALTER e. BUCK,
Clerk.
True Copy:-Test:
WALTER e. BUCK,