Pickett v. Pickett

Action by a wife for divorce, on the ground of adultery by the husband. As to the fact of adultery, the court below found that, after the marriage, the defendant had carnal intercourse with an unmarried woman, but decided that such carnal intercourse was not adultery within the meaning of the statute regulating divorce, holding that statute to use the word “adultery” in the restricted' sense in which it is used in the statute making adultery a criminal offence, and not in the more enlarged sense in wdiich it is commonly used.

In some of the states, our own included, it is held that to…