Divorce Subpoena Margaret Ann Henderson-Robert F. Henderson, 1858, Chester Co., 
PA

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NOTICE.
In the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County.
Margaret Ann Henderson,
by her next friend,                      Sur Libel in Divorce,
Henry B. Freeman

  To Robert F. Henderson, respondent above names:-Whereas, upon the petition or 
libel of said Margaret Ann Henderson, by her next friend, Henry B. Freeman, 
above named, a subpoena being awarded by the Court of Common Pleas of said 
County,-a subpoena is sued out of said Court, tested the 28th day of April, A. 
D. 1857, commanding you, the said Robert F. Henderson, to be and appear at the 
then next regular term of said Court to show cause, if any you have, why the 
said Libellant should not be divorced from the bonds of matrimony which she had 
contracted with you, agreeably to the prayer of said petitioner; and Whereas, 
upon the return of said subpoena, due proof was made that you could not be found 
or served with the same in the bailiwick of the Sheriff of said county, 
whereupon an alias subpoena was awarded by the said Court, tested the 19th day 
of September, 1857, commanding you to be and appear at the then next regular 
term of the said Court, to answer, &c., as aforesaid, -to which the same return 
was made by the same Sheriff.  You are therefore, hereby required to be and 
appear on the first day of the next regular term of said Court, to be held at 
West Chester, for said county, on the LAST MONDAY OF JANUARY NEXT, A.D. 1858, to 
answer the complaint aforesaid.
                                                      David McNUTT; Sheriff.
Sheriff’s Office, West Chester, Nov. 17 A. D. 1857.

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NOTE:  definition of "next friend" in Blacks Law Dictionary: "The legal 
designation of the person by whom an infant or other person disabled from suing 
in his own name brings and prosecutes an action either at law or equity.