Legal Opinion

Thompson v. Thompson

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 13, 1912No. Appeal, No. 233PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal, No. 233, Oct. T., 1911, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., March T., 1911, No. 30, granting divorce in case of William D. Thompson v. Margaret M. Thompson. Libel for divorce. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was decree awarding the divorce.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Rice, P. J.,

The parties to. this suit were married, clandestinely, *161on April 3, 1897, in Camden, New Jersey. The libelant was a little less than seventeen years old and the respondent, according to her testimony, was in her eighteenth year, but according to the finding of the master, based on declarations alleged to have been made by her, she was in her twenty-first year. The respondent was at the time a domestic servant in the employ of the libelant’s grandparents in Philadelphia, doing the housework of a family consisting of his grandparents, his mother, a younger sister and an…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Middleton v. MiddletonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
  2. Ingersoll v. IngersollSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
  3. King v. KingSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
  4. Olson v. OlsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  5. Vanleer v. VanleerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1850

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Walsh v. WalshSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  2. Bracken v. BrackenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  3. Leonard v. LeonardSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  4. Kurniker v. KurnikerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
  5. McGowan v. McGowanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1929

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