Mary Montgomery represents that, upon her marriage to Thomas Beauchamp, she owned clothes, furniture and bedding, as well as three slaves that had been given to her by her father and mother. Mary Montgomery Beauchamp contends that her husband is addicted to intoxication, has adulterous relations with prostitutes, and repeatedly engages in physical violence upon her person, displaying such cruel and outrageous conduct that life with him has become “insupportable.” He has in fact threatened her with a gun and recently driven her and their young daughter out of their common dwelling, forcing her to seek refuge with her widowed sister. Mary prays for a divorce from her husband. She seeks to be separated in property from him in order to recover slaves and other property. She also wants custody of her child and an injunction to prevent her husband from “disturbing her in her person her child” and her property during the continuance of the suit.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana
