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Mauk vs Mauk
Dep for Pltf
Filed by Examiner
Septr 3rd 1866
Barren Co
Bundle #3178
1866/1867
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Barren Circuit Court
Elizabeth Mauk Pltf
against
George Mauk
Wm Yeary
John Bailey
Charles Stery
Defts
Petition in Equity
The plaintiff Elizabeth Mauk states
that she is the wife of the Defendant George Mauk,
that her said husband has been a confirmed drunkard
for more than one year past that he has & is now
wasting his prosperity without making any suit-
able provision for the maintenance of plaintiff
& his infant children & that there are three infant
children of plaintiff & her said husband; that the
said Defendant George Mauk has habitually behaved
towards plaintiff for not less than six months in
such cruel & inhuman manner as to indicate
a settled aversion to her & to destroy permanent-
ly her peace & happiness; that the said deft George
Mauk has attempted to injure plaintiff with
force & violence in such a manner as indicates an
outrageous, ungovernable temper in him & prob-
able danger to her life or great bodily injury
from remaining with him; that she has been
compelled to abandon her home and children & is
now living separate & apart from her said
husband; that she now resides in Barren County
& has resided in this state for one year past;
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that the said drunkeness & wasting of property
on the part of the said deft George Mauks cruel &
inhuman conduct to plaintiff & attempts to
injure her by force & violence occured in this
State & within five years next before the com-
mencement of this action.
Plaintiff states that she has reason to suspect
& charges that the said defendant George Mauk
if not prevented will fraudulantly sell, convey,
or conceal his property so as to (sic) plaintiff from
obtaining alimony for herself & maintenance
for her said infant children. Plaintiff states and charges
that the defendant Wm Yeary is indebted to the said
defendant Geo Mauk in the sun of $200; that the
said defendant Jno Bailey is indebted to the said deft Geo
Mauk in the sum of $140 - & the said deft Charled
Storry in indebted to the said deft Geo Mauk in
the sum of &100 - Plaintiff states that unless the
said deft Geo Mauk is restrained from dispose-
ing (sic) of his property & collecting said debt great &
irreparable injury will result to plaintiff & her
said infant children. She states that the said
deft George Mauk is the owner of two tracts of land
in Barren County conveyed to him be Jno Nichols
& Thomas Hearlan containing ____ acres evidences of
the title to which will in due time be files
herewith.
Wherefore plaintiff prays for a divorce from her
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said husband & fer (sic) an order of injunction against
the said George Mauk forbidding his selling his
said land & other property directing to Sheriff
of said county to deliver to plaintiff all of his
personal property & for an order injoining (sic) &
restraining the siad defts Yeary, Bailey & Storry
from paying said debts or any part thereof to
said Mauk until the matters & things in this
action can be heard & determined & for all proper
relief.
Elizabeth Mauk
by J. W. Gorin
Elizabeth Mauk says she believes the statements
made in the foregoing petition are true.
Elizabeth Mauk X (her mark)
Sworn to before me by Elizabeth Mauk April 21st
1865 W.F. Evans J Blele
The clerk of the Barren Circuit Court will issue
an order of injunction enjoining Wm Yearly (sic)
John Bailey & Charles Storry from paying to the
Defendant Mauk what they or either of them
may be owing to him, and to also to enjoin said
Mauk from selling or disposing of any land
he has title to to a possession of until an order
of said Circuit Court may be made in the
premisis. You will direct the Sheriff of this
county to take into custody and deliver
to the plaintiff so much of and such articles
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of the personal property of said Mauk as she
may select not to exceed in value of $300. And you
will also issue an order directing and enjoing
said deft Mauk not to interfere with said
property thus delivered to the plaintiff until
permitted to do so by an order of said Circuit Court
this order to be issued without requiring the
plfs to give bond. Given under my hand as
Judge of the County Court of Barren County
April 20th 1865
W. F. Evans J. Blele
a copy attest W. S. Porter clk
Elizabeth Mauk
vs
Deft in Equity
Geo Mauk & Others
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