Burton v. Burton
Supreme Court of Vermont
.Libel for divorce. Heard on the defendant’s demurrer to the libellant’s surrejoinder, September Term, 18'85, Royce, Ch. J., presiding. Demurrer overruled. The libel stated cruelty and adultery as causes for the divorce.
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.Libel for divorce. Heard on the defendant’s demurrer to the libellant’s surrejoinder, September Term, 18'85, Royce, Ch. J., presiding. Demurrer overruled. The libel stated cruelty and adultery as causes for the divorce. The plea set forth the former divorce proceedings between the same parties, the libel, its dismissal, etc., and alleged that “the pretended offenses set forth in this present libel are the same identical offenses as are mentioned and alleged to have been committed in said first libel.” * * * “And said court, upon full hearing and trial of said cause upon its merits and upon…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Walker, J.
In divorce proceedings in this State, but little attention is paid to the pleadings. The procedure in such cases has not been regarded as subject to the rules and forms of pleading that prevail in common law causes. Usually there are no pleadings, even in contested libels. The practice certainly does not require it. Anything that tends to show that the libellant is not entitled to a divorce for the causes alleged, is admitted in evidence; and a former adjudication may be shown in evidence by a copy of record *419without special plea. Shackett v.…
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