In re Heilweil

Petitioner brings this proceeding for the dissolution of his marriage under section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law (added by Laws of 1922, chap. 279), upon the ground that his wife had absented herself for more than seven successive years without being known to him to be living during that time and that, all attempts to find her having proven unavailing, he believes her to be dead.

Before the learned official referee to whom this matter was referred, the petitioner testified that after marriage in March, 1920, in New York city, the parties lived together at No. 108 West Sixty-ninth street,…