Freeland v. Freeland
Supreme Court of Missouri
•Appeal from Platte Circuit Court. The petition does not state facts sufficient to warrant the decree. It states that the defendant left the plaintiff without cause, but does not state that she remained absent for two years without reasonable cause.
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
The petition filed by the husband for a divorce from his wife, states as the ground of the divorce, that she, on the 20th of October, 1850, left the plaintiff without any cause whatever on his part; 11 that said Rebecca has been absent from him for more than two years.” Judgment having been given for the plaintiff, the case is brought to this court by appeal, and we examine the petition, to see whether it will support the judgment.
1. When absence of either party is charged by the other, as the ground of divorce,'it must be such as the statute makes a cause of divorce. The words of the act…
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