Hanson v. Hanson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel for divorce from the bond of matrimony for the sentence of the libellee to imprisonment at hard labor for more than five years.
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Libel for divorce from the bond of matrimony for the sentence of the libellee to imprisonment at hard labor for more than five years. At the hearing before Gray, J., the facts appeared to be as follows: “ The parties were married on September 28, 1858, and there-afterward lived together, as husband and wife, at West Roxbury in the county of Norfolk, until November 25, 1871, when the libellee was arrested on a warrant issued against him for forgery, taken to Boston in this county, imprisoned there, and at January term 1872 of the Superior Court convicted of forgery, and sentenced to be…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
By the Gen. Sts. e. 107, § 19, a libel for divorce may be presented to the court and a summons issued thereon in any county. But by § 13, it must be heard and determined in the court held for the county in which “ the parties or one of them live;” and by § 14, “when the libellant has left the county in which the parties have lived together, the adverse party still living therein, the libel shall be heard and determined in the court held for that county.” The only question reserved by the report is, whether, under the provisions of these two sections, this libel may be heard and determined in…
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