Blakeslee v. Blakeslee
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action for divorce by Romain Blakeslee against Laura E. Blakeslee. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The judgment of the lower court is not sustained by the evidence in granting a decree for extreme cruelty, because the parties were never domiciled in Nevada, and no act of any kind ever occurred in Nevada; hence there was no extreme cruelty in Nevada.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Thomas F. Moran, Judge. Action for divorce by Romain Blakeslee against Laura E. Blakeslee. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The judgment of the lower court is not sustained by the evidence in granting a decree for extreme cruelty, because the parties were never domiciled in Nevada, and no act of any kind ever occurred in Nevada; hence there was no extreme cruelty in Nevada. The acts complained of all occurred in Illinois, and under the laws of that state, offered and admitted in evidence, there was no cause of action…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
McCarran, C. J.:
This was an action for divorce. The complaint was based on two causes of action — extreme cruelty, and desertion.
*238The desertion constituting the basis of the second cause of action is alleged to have taken place in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois. It appears from the record that appellant and respondent had formerly lived together in the city of Chicago; that on or about May 1, 1914, respondent left that city and came west, later taking up his residence in the city of Keno, where he had resided for a period of about one year prior to the commencement of this…
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