Schrow v. Schrow
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel filed October 9, 1869, by a resident of Charlestown, for a divorce from the bond of matrimony for the cause of adultery alleged to have been committed at Springfield in this Commonwealth, San Francisco in California, and Hartford in Connecticut, “ on September 15,1867, and at other times since the marriage,” by the libellee, who was described in the libel as commorant at said Hartford, and, after due service of notice on her was defaulted.
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Libel filed October 9, 1869, by a resident of Charlestown, for a divorce from the bond of matrimony for the cause of adultery alleged to have been committed at Springfield in this Commonwealth, San Francisco in California, and Hartford in Connecticut, “ on September 15,1867, and at other times since the marriage,” by the libellee, who was described in the libel as commorant at said Hartford, and, after due service of notice on her was defaulted. At the trial, before Ames, X, it appeared that the parties were married at San Francisco at some time in 1867, and soon after-wards separated; that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The parties never having “lived together as husband and wife” in this Commonwealth, and the libellant not .having lived here for five consecutive years next preceding the time of filing the libel, this court has no jurisdiction of the cause. Gen. Sts. c. 107, §§ 11, 12. Their having lived in the state separately is not sufficient. Exceptions overruled.
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