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Show 62 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. DIVORCE-JUDGE HOWARD'S QUIT-CLAIM DEED TO HIS WIFE. MARY E. HOWARD, 1 Plaintiff, In Court of Chancery, vs. \ Denver City, JOHN HOWARD, /efferson Territory. Defendant. J PETITION FOR DIVORCE. To the Plaintiff in the above entitled action: WHEREAS, having been citied through the press at Denver, to appear before one Judge Downing, of the above entitled Court, to show cause why your prayer to be divorced from me should not be granted: I, the defendant, hereby state (waiving my own oath in the premises) that I don't know any such cause whatever, and, therefore, confess the corn. And said defendant, as Judge of the Canon City District Court, enters a decree in your favor accordingly; and in order to relieve you of any embarrassment in the matter, I have executed "and send you herewith attached as part of this answer, a quit-claim deed of all my right, title and interest whatever in you, leaving a blank to be filled up by the name of the party grantee, by whom you may in future be claimed under squatter title. Hoping you will fully appreciate my good feeling in the premises, I hereby attach the said deed, as follows, to wit: Know all men (and one woman) by these presents, That I, John Howard, of Canon City, of the first part, do hereby give, grant, bargain, convey, and quit-claim, all my right, title and interest in and to the following (un) real estate, to wit: The undivided whole of that ancient estate known as Mary Howard, (the title to which I acquired by discovery, occupancy, possession and use,) situated at present in the town of Denver, Jefferson Territory, together with all the improvements made and erected by me thereon, with all the rents, profits, easements, enjoyments, long suffering and appurtenances thereto in anywise appertaining, unto of the second part, to have and to hold unto the said so long as he can keep her, without recourse upon the grantor or endorser. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this, the 24th day of Jan., 1861. [SEAL] Signed, JOHN HOWARD. Signed in the presence of A. Rudd, clerk of District Court. Per WILBUR F. STONE, Deputy. |
