Stevens v. Stevens

The Chancellor.

Bill for divorce on the ground of adultery. The adultery is charged, in the complainant’s bill, to have been committed at various times, from the year 1850 to 1859. The adultery proved was committed on the seventeenth of September, 1858. The bill states that the parties lived together as man and wife until about the nineteenth of August, 1859, nine years after the commission of the adultery, as charged in the bill, nearly one year after the adultery, as established by the evidence.

If the wife, having knowledge of the adultery, or reason to believe it, continued voluntarily to…