Storrs v. Storrs
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Libel eor Divorce, for abandonment, filed September 27, 1893. . The parties were married January 1, 1878, and lived together until June, 1882, when the defendant abandoned the plaintiff without cause and without his consent. In the fall of 1882 the defendant became incurably insane and incapable of performing her marital duties. In February, 1883, she was placed in the asylum for the insane, where she has ever since remained. She appeared by a guardian ad litem.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
A libel may be maintained and a divorce decreed against an insane person for causes of divorce which arose and became complete before the defendant became insane. Mansfield v. Mansfield, 13 Mass. 412; Mordaunt v. Moncreiffe, L. R., 2 Sc. & Div. App. 374. Insanity at tlie time of the commission of the acts constituting the ground of divorce is a full defence. Broadstreet v. Broadstreet, 7 Mass. 474; Garnett v. Garnett, 114 Mass. 379; Nichols v. Nichols, 31 Vt. 328.
Abandonment, to constitute a cause of divorce, must continue for three years together. P. S., c. 175, s. 5. The time during which…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Broadstreet v. StreetMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
- Nichols v. NicholsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
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