Petition #20185718
- Tallapoosa County, Alabama. September 28, 1857. - November 1858.
- Court: Chancery
- Salutation: To the Honerable James B. Clark Chanceller of the 14th District Middle Division of the State of Alabama
Abstract
Mary Turner, by her next friend Perry D. Yancy, seeks a divorce from her husband Abner D. Turner. During the summer of 1853, she testifies, he attempted to "smother her with Tobacco smoke," knocked her down "with violence," gave her a venereal disease, and "whipped her severely with a Leather strop, with a wooden handle such as was used to correct disobedient slaves." This "cruel and inhuman" treatment came despite the fact that she was pregnant "with her first and only child, the fruit of said marriage, now a little Girl about four years old." In September 1853, he left for the west and she has not seen him since.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Trial Docket Page, Turner v. Turner; Affidavit of Nonresidence, P. Yancy, 28 September 1857; Order of Publication, 28 September 1857; Affidavit of Publication, 20 December 1857; Continuance, November Term 1857; Decree Pro Confesso, 19 April 1858; Appointment and Acceptance of C. Marable, Next Friend, 22 November 1858; Publication and Testimony, Submission and Proofs, November 1858; Final Decree, November 1858
- Pages of related documents: 2
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Citation information
Repository: Tallapoosa County Courthouse, Dadeville, Alabama
- Records of the Circuit Court, Minutes and Decrees Chancery Court 1855-1867
- Page: 339-42
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