Petition #20186331
- Mobile County, Alabama. August 14, 1863. - May 1864.
- Court: Chancery
- Salutation: To the Honorable the Chancellor of the Southern Chancery division of Alabama, presiding in the Mobile Chancery Court
Abstract
Free person of color Catharine Chastang complains that her husband, Edward, has abandoned her. After their marriage in 1857, they lived in the house of her father, Zenon Chastang. According to the deposition of Louis Chastang, Edward "abused his wife in a disgraceful manner, repudiated her as his wife, abandoned her without furnishing her any means of support, and declared he never would do any thing for her." Catharine asks for divorce.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 4
- Related documents: Interrogatories to be Propounded, ca. 1863; Depositions, Ira Smith, Louis Chastang, Zenon Chastang, Joseph Chastang, John Chastang, Alphonse Chastang, 19 May 1864; Decree, May 1864
- Pages of related documents: 10
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Repository: University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama
- Records of the Chancery Court, Divorce Cases
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