Armstrong R. Blick petitions the court for a divorce from his wife Elizabeth. The petitioner charges "that the said Elizabeth about two or three years ago became disaffected & has since been guilty of adultery & living in common prostitution separate and apart from her husband." He therefore prays "that your Honor would by definitive sentence pronounce and decree the marriage to be null & void, pursuant to the Act of Assembly March 18 1848." In his deposition, R. C. Trayler informed the court that he saw Elizabeth "upon several occasion going into houses of ill fame, and I have seen her repeatedly in houses kept for that purpose by negroes -- that is for purposes of prostitution."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Circuit Court Clerk's Office, Petersburg, Virginia
