Morgan v. Morgan

Chapter 227 of the Public Acts of 1923 provides that “if the plaintiff shall not have continuously resided in this State three years next before the date of the complaint, it shall be dismissed unless the cause of divorce shall have arisen subsequently to the removal into this State, or unless the defendant shall have continuously resided in this State three years next before the date of the complaint, and actual service shall have been made upon him.”

The plaintiff’s claim is, first, that the word “resided” as used in the statute, is synonymous with “been dom-. iciled”; and second, that the…