Petition #20185421
- Talladega County, Alabama. November 25, 1854. - July 1857.
- Court: Chancery
- Salutation: To the Honl James B. Clark Chancellor of Middle Division of the State of Alabama
Abstract
In 1854, William Brewer files for divorce from his wife Jane Brewer. William charges that Jane was having an illicit affair with Isaiah Phillips, a boarder in their home. Although he further characterizes Jane as a woman of "unusual shrewdness," who for some time concealed her "unlawful intimacy," he charges that she and Phillips later became "so bold and daring" in their conduct of their affair that he "was treated with contempt and his authority over his wife and household was openly spurned by them." When he caught his wife and Phillips "in the act of adultry in the wood near the residence," William confronted his wife and "drove her off." The petitioner asks that Jane be summoned to court and that he be granted a divorce "from the bond of matrimony."
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 3
- Related documents: PAR #20185537; Copies of Answer, Jane C. Brewer, ca. August 1855; Cross Bill, Jane C. Brewer, ca. August 1855 [filed 31 December 1855]; Amendments to Original Bill, William Brewer v. Jane C. Brewer, 21 June 1855; Answer to Cross Bill, William C. Brewer, 2 August 1855; Suppression of Depositions, 22 March 1856; Summons Order of Register, 3 November 1856; Agreement, William Brewer and Jane Brewer, ca. 1856; Report of Register, 27 November 1856; Exceptions to Report of Register, William Brewer, 27 November 1856; Record, 21 April 1857; Report of Register, 21 April 1857; Opinion and Decrees, Brewer v. Brewer, July 1856, 4 September 1856; Orders, November 1856, July 1857
- Pages of related documents: 23
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Citation information
Repository: Shelby County Archives, Columbiana, Alabama
- Records of the Chancery Court, Records: Minutes and Dockets; Divorces; Slaves, Estates, 1857-1861
- Page: 21-32; 36-41; 44-51
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