Elizabeth R. Askew charges her husband Napoleon B. Askew with living "an adulterous life" with a mulatto woman named Catherine Rebecca, and she seeks a divorce from said Napoleon since he has "lost the disposition and power to care and provide for the moral and also the physical wants of his wife and children." The petitioner further argues that the provisions made by him for the support of his daughters is insufficient. Elizabeth therefore prays for "divorce and alimony and the care, custody and maintenance of the children" as well as "for such relief and for such orders and decrees in the premises as to your Honor may under the circumstances seem meet and proper." Napoleon’s drunkenness and debauchery is “notorious” in the neighborhood.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Billups-Garth Archives, Lowndes County Public Library, Columbus, Mississippi
