Sally Wade Ballinger seeks a divorce from Richard Ballinger, her husband of twenty years. She represents that the said Richard has squandered her estate and "took another woman into his house lived in open adultery with her, by her has had three children, and has driven your petitioner from him forever under the penalty of being beaten to death." The petitioner therefore prays that she may be divorced "from the said Richard Ballinger, and that all his power over her and her little children as well as her property may forever cease."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
