Downs v. Downs
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal (specially allowed) by the defendants, from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia overruling their pleas to a petition for divorce and giving” them leave to answer.
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Hearing on an appeal (specially allowed) by the defendants, from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia overruling their pleas to a petition for divorce and giving” them leave to answer. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: The appellee, N. Carroll Downs, a native of Maryland and for many years exercising the right of suffrage in that State, but claiming also to be now and to have been for more than two years prior to the institution of these proceedings, on September 25, 1892, a resident of this District, filed his petition in the supreme court of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
In much of the reasoning of the learned justice who heard *386this cause in the court below, andwhosevery able opinion appears in the record before us, we fully concur ; and if this were a case to be determined by the mere preponderance of evidence respecting the relative durations of time spent by the appellee in this District and in the State of Maryland, and the relative amounts of activity expended by him in the two several localities, we would have no great hesitation in reaching the same conclusion that was reached by that court. But in our opinion this is not such a case. There is a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- De Meli v. . De MeliNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Thomas v. WarnerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1896
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