Hoff v. Hoff

One of the grounds upon which an absolute divorce maybe decreed in this state is “when the woman before marriage has been guilty of illicit carnal intercourse with another mán, the same being unknown to the husband at the time of the marriage, and when such carnal connection shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court.” Code, art. 16, sec. 38. Under that provision the decree appealed from dissolved the marriage which had been contracted by the parties to this suit. The nuptial ceremony was performed on FeDruary 20th, 1931, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the defendant had given…