McVickar v. McVickar

Pitney, V. C.

Petitioner prays to be divorced from the bonds of matrimony* on the ground of desertion by her husband, the defendant, which she alleges to have occurred in 1868. It is admitted, that since that date the parties have lived separately, and the question is as to the character of the separation.

The parties were married in May, 1862, at Ballymena, county Antrim, Ireland, where the parents of both resided. The petitioner was then barely sixteen years old; the defendant about thirty. Her father and brothers were well-to-do people, engaged in trade at Ballymena, and, as I infer, also at…