Garner v. Garner
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. After the decree was passed the defendant filed a petition asking that the prohibitory clause be stricken out, on the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction to decree such prohibition against her, she being a non-resident, and not having been lawfully brought into Court. The Court (Dobbin, J.,) overruled this petition and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This is a bill by the appellee a citizen of this State, praying a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from the appellant. now residing in the City of New York, upon the ground of abandonment.
In granting the divorce the Court below, in the exercise of the discretion vested in it by the statute of 1872, ch. 272, further ordered and decided that the appellant Wilhemina E. Garner, should not contract marriage with any other person, during the life-time of the appellee.
It is conceded that the domicil of the husband is the matrimonial domicil, and that the Court had jurisdiction to grant the divorce; but…
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