Allen v. Allen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for a divorce, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The respondent filed an answer denying the allegations of the petition, which were of cruelty and general misconduct, and a cross-bill alleging such misconduct on the part of the petitioner as permanently destroyed his happiness in the marriage relation.
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Petition for a divorce, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The respondent filed an answer denying the allegations of the petition, which were of cruelty and general misconduct, and a cross-bill alleging such misconduct on the part of the petitioner as permanently destroyed his happiness in the marriage relation. A committee, to whom the case was referred, found the allegations of the petition not true and those of the cross-bill true, and the court thereupon granted a divorce, upon the cross-bill, against the petitioner. The petitioner thereupon filed the following motion for…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The statute concerning divorce, contains, among others, the following provisions:
“ Sec. 1st. The Superior Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all petitions for divorce, and may grant divorces *424to any man or woman for the following offences committed by the other party, '* * * *.
“ Sec. 2d. The party aggrieved may prefer a petition to the Superior Court, * * * * and, on proof of the allegation, said court may grant a divorce, and declare the petitioner single and unmarried; and the parties divorced may then marry again.”
“ Sec. 5tli. The Superior Court may assign to any woman so divorced,…
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