Stevens v. Stevens

This is an action by a wife for a separ,ation from her husband. He demands a judgment of divorce’oh a counterclaim founded upon an allegation of adultery which is traversed by her reply. On the trial she put in evidence a decree of divorce obtained by him a few months before in the State of Nevada. It was admitted that the Nevada court was without jurisdiction either of the cause or of the person of the wife and that its judgment had no force in this State. There had been no subsequent marriage of either party.

In that condition of the record, the husband’s present counterclaim for a divorce…