Sinclair v. Sinclair

Van der Voort, J.,

This is a contested action in divorce from bed and board on the grounds of indignities to the person.

The case was tried before the late Thomas M. Mar-shall, judge of this court who died prior to handing down his decision, and is now here to be decided upon the present state of the record by stipulation of counsel for both parties.

The parties were never formally married by an officer of a church or of the State, and plaintiff bases her action on a common-law marriage. While defendant denied conduct amounting to indignities, his defense consisted of a denial of any common-law…