Wagg's v. Gibbons
Ohio Supreme Court
In error to the District Court of Washington county. The material facts in this case are stated in the opinion of the court. The answer therein mentioned was/on demurrer in the court of common pleas, held to be a sufficient defense, and judgment was entered accordingly. The district court, on error, reversed this judgment of the common pleas; and the present petition in error seeks to reverse the judgment of reversal.
1Opinion of the CourtRanney, C. J.
The petition alleges that the plaintiff’s testator was married to Edwin Wagg sometime prior to the year 1849, in the kingdom of Great Britain, of which both parties were then citizens. That in May of that year she was abandoned by her husband, who left' Great Britain and went to Asia, and has never returned; and that he left her wholly without any means of support, and has *581ever since refused to make any provision therefor. In 1850 she came to this State, and has supported and. maintained herself, and dealt as a single woman ; and that in 1854 it came to her knowledge that her husband was in…
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