Carson v. Carson

An act of the legislature, approved February 9, 1860, provided “ that in all cases where parties have, prior to the passage of this act, lived separate and apart for the period of four years, within this State, and either of them may desire to be divorced from the bonds of matrimony, and have not lived separate and apart by collusion, and with the intent of procuring a divorce, it shall be lawful for them, or either of them, to file a bill setting forth such desire, and upon due proof of such living separate and apart, it shall be competent for the court to decree a divorce from the bonds of…