Johnson v. Johnson
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decree of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, granting a divorce. The parties were married at Manchester, in England, in 1825, and came immediately to the city of New-York to reside. The defendant had continued to reside in this state ever since, except about eight months, from August, 1831, to April, 1832, when the parties were in England.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, granting a divorce. The parties were married at Manchester, in England, in 1825, and came immediately to the city of New-York to reside. The defendant had continued to reside in this state ever since, except about eight months, from August, 1831, to April, 1832, when the parties were in England. The adultery, charged in the bill, was stated to have been committed at New-York, in September, October, and November, 1830, .while the complainant was absent on a visit to her father’s, in England i and in June and July,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor,
If the testimony produced before the master was legal evidence to prove the fact of adultery, the complainant undoubtedly succeeded in showing that the defendant was guilty of the adultery charged as having occurred previous to her return from England, in November, 1830. The parties came to reside in this state in 1825; and they were both inhabitants of the state from that time till August, 1831, notwithstanding the temporary absence of the wife, on a visit to her father, in the summer and fall of 1830. This would have been sufficient to give the court jurisdiction of the case,…
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