Kruse v. Kruse
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action for a divorce brought by the wife against the husband for wilful desertion and absence without reasonable cause for two years.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This was an action for a divorce brought by the wife against the husband for wilful desertion and absence without reasonable cause for two years. The plaintiff proved, as appeared from the bill of exceptions, “ that she was married to the defendant, in the county of St. Louis, on the 15th day of October, 1852; that, after living together a few months in said county, the defendant left the plaintiff, without any cause therefor being made to appear, and went to California, and has since done nothing for her support or maintenance, nor had he since been heard…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This was a petition for a divorce instituted in the St. Louis Circuit Court on account of desertion and absence. Although the plaintiff may have been married in this state, yet that circumstance of itself does not entitle her to sue in our courts for a divorce. It appears from the evidence in the cause that *70the plaintiff was a non-resident of this state when she instituted this suit, and that she continued so up to the time of the trial of the cause. The second section of the act concerning divorce and alimony, (R. C. 1845,) under which this proceeding was begun, clearly shows that the…
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