Francis Terence, a free man of color, seeks a divorce from his wife of four years, Josephine Johnson, also a free woman of color. Terence represents that Josephine’s conduct since the marriage has been “such as to render it insupportable for him to live with her any longer.” Francis charges that his wife’s “habits” are dissolute, that she frequents “Houses of prostitution” and “lewd Ballrooms,” that she has committed adultery with Eugene Milleur and lives with him in “open concubinage,” that she has received Milleur in the marital bed, that she has contracted a venereal disease, and that she has clandestinely left the conjugal “domicil.” Francis Terence therefore prays that his wife be cited to answer his petition and that a judgment of divorce be “pronounced” against her.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
