Sawtell v. Sawtell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition for a divorce, upon the ground of habitual intemperance and intolerable cruelty, on the part of the husband. The cause was heard at Fairfield, February term, 1845, before Waite, J. On the hearing, the allegations contained in the petition were fully proved. It further appeared, that, the parties formerly lived in the city of New-York, where a separation took place between them, inconsequence of the intemperance and . cruelty of the husband.
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This was a petition for a divorce, upon the ground of habitual intemperance and intolerable cruelty, on the part of the husband. The cause was heard at Fairfield, February term, 1845, before Waite, J. On the hearing, the allegations contained in the petition were fully proved. It further appeared, that, the parties formerly lived in the city of New-York, where a separation took place between them, inconsequence of the intemperance and . cruelty of the husband. The petitioner afterwards came to Connecticut to reside with her friends, but had not resided in this state three years before the…
1Opinion of the Court
W aite. J.
This is an application for a divorce, under a recent statute, passed in 1843, authorizing the superior court to grant divorces for habitual intemperance or intolerable cruelty. The statute is made in addition to a former act, empowering the superior court to grant divorces for adultery, and certain other causes, and directs, that the proceedings shall be according to the provisions and mode of proceeding in that act.
One of those provisions is, that “ if the petitioner shall have removed from any other state or nation to this state, and shall not have statedly resided in this state,…
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