Brown v. Brown

This is a divorce proceeding' instituted in the chancery court of Giles county.

The defendant interposed a plea to the jurisdiction of the court, which was overruled by the chancellor, but sustained by the court of civil appeals, and the suit dismissed.

The substance of the plea was that at the time of the filing of the bill, and for 30 years prior thereto, the domicile of the defendant was in Davidson county, and that the word “reside” in the statute was used in its strict legal sense; that is, synonymously with “domicile.”

It is well settled that a party may have two or more residences, in the…