Long v. Long
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN for Divorce tried-at Spring Term, 1877, of MbokleNBURG Superior Court, before Cloud, J. The plaintiff alleged that he was married to the defendant on the 22d of January, 1874 ; on the 8th of March following, he discovered that she was pregnant and had been so for more than four months; on the '29th of July following, she was delivered of a child; on discovering her condition in.
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Civil ActioN for Divorce tried-at Spring Term, 1877, of MbokleNBURG Superior Court, before Cloud, J. The plaintiff alleged that he was married to the defendant on the 22d of January, 1874 ; on the 8th of March following, he discovered that she was pregnant and had been so for more than four months; on the '29th of July following, she was delivered of a child; on discovering her condition in. March as aforesaid, he separated from the defendant; that the defendant practiced a fraud on him in contracting the marriage, he supposing her to be a virtuous woman; and that at the time of the marriage…
1Opinion of the Court
Reade J.
There are but three causes assigned for divorce hy our statutes:
1. “If either party shall separate from the other and live in adultery.
2. “ If the wife shall commit adultery.
3. “If either party at the time of the marriage was and still is naturally impotent.”
This is the declaration of the legislative will as late as 1871. The Legislature has not only restricted the causes for divorce, but it has also been careful as to the manner of ascertaining the causes. The declarations or admissions of the parties in Court or out of Court go for nothing. Every allegation is to be deemed as…
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