Polly Reno claims that her husband, Lewis, "has given himself up to almost habitual intoxication and has lately treated your oratrix in a cruel inhuman & barbarous manner." Lewis owns property, including four slaves, livestock, and land, and Polly claims that he has threatened to leave the state, taking all his property and leaving her without means of support. He also holds a $400-note from Joshua Jackson, which will be due in the spring. She asks that Jackson be prevented from paying the $400 until further order of the court, that a writ of ne exeat be issued to restrain Reno from leaving Kentucky, and that “alimony may be decreed to your oratrix.”
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Repository: Harrison County Courthouse, Cynthiana, Kentucky