Clark v. Clark
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Libel for a divorce, for the cause of adultery. It appeared that the parties were married in Bath, in this state, but the husband was at the time an inhabitant of Vermont. In 1831, while the parties resided there, the husband came into this state and committed adultery. In 1832 he deserted bis wife, and she then returned to her friends in Lisbon, in this state. In 1833 he came to reside in Bristol.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Parker, J.
The crime of which the libellant complains was committed in this state, and the courts here had jurisdiction of it as such, and it might have been punished as an offence against our laws ; but we could not then have taken cognizance of it as a ground for a divorce. The parties to this application were then domiciled in Vermont, and the courts of that state had then, and so long after as the husband resided there, exclusive jurisdiction of the subject matter of a divorce between them. It is true that the parties were married in this state ; but this was doubtless in…
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