Blackburn v. Blackburn

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

STAINBACK, J.

This is a libel filed for divorce by Willis E. Blackburn charging the libelee, Vera T. Blackburn, with grievous mental suffering. Service was made upon the libelee in California where she had been since July, 1953.

The parties were married at Las Yegas, Nevada, in March, 1953, and came to Honolulu during the first part of June, 1953; libelee returned to California in July, 1953, to arrange for sale of her house and such of her furnishings as she did not wish to keep.

There was a plea to the jurisdiction, the libelee alleging that the libelant had not resided…