Hayes v. Hayes

In this libel for divorce, no appearance was entered for the libellee. No commissioner was appointed to take and report the testimony. The judge found that the parties were married in 1922 in Philadelphia, and lived for a few weeks in Pennsylvania; that the libellee disappeared, and later the libellant came to Medfield in this Commonwealth; that she and her husband “stayed one night in a room ... in Boston”; that the “following morning the libellant returned to said Medfield”; that she called on the libellee and talked with him about establishing a home; that at this time he assaulted her.

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