Drayton v. Drayton

The Chancellor.

The petitioner seeks a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, because of her husband’s willful, continued and obstinate desertion of her for upwards of two years prior to the filing of her petition.

The proofs disclose that she and the defendant were married in October, 1879, in the city of New York, and thereafter resided in that city until the year 1886, when they removed to a dwelling which the défeñdant had erected in Bernards township, in Somerset county, in which county they have retained their residence hitherto.

One evening in October, 1891, upon the petitioner’s return from New…