Robbins v. Robbins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel for divorce, on the ground of adultery. Hearing before Holmes, J., who found that the libellee committed adultery on September 19, 1888, and on the question of the libellant’s connivance thereat reported the case for the consideration of the full court, as follows: “ On the day before the adultery was committed, the libellant, having begun to suspect his wife in connection with a man then lodging in his house, requested his son in Boston to telegraph for him to come to…
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Libel for divorce, on the ground of adultery. Hearing before Holmes, J., who found that the libellee committed adultery on September 19, 1888, and on the question of the libellant’s connivance thereat reported the case for the consideration of the full court, as follows: “ On the day before the adultery was committed, the libellant, having begun to suspect his wife in connection with a man then lodging in his house, requested his son in Boston to telegraph for him to come to Boston the next day, if he did not come to town in the morning. The next day the telegram arrived; the libellant…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The justice who heard the case found as a fact that the conduct of the libellant, described in the report, constituted a scheme to detect the libellee, if she was guilty, but that there was no corrupt intent that adultery should be committed, or any assent to or connivance at it, unless the conduct of the libellant amounted to connivance as matter of law, which he ruled it did not. It is not found by whom the man who lodged in the house was invited to lodge there, or that he was of bad reputation, or was introduced by the husband to the wife, or that lodging there under the circumstances made…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MunsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Sparhawk v. SparhawkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
- Morrison v. MorrisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
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- Davis v. MisianoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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