Brown v. Brown

The principal question arising in this case is, whether in an action for divorce a summons may issue directed to the sheriff of, and be served on the defendant in, a county other than that in which the plaintiff resides and in which the action is brought.

Section 7 of chap. 19, General Statutes, page 345, provides as follows : “ A divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be decreed by the district court of the county where the parties, or one of them, resides,” etc.

Upon looking into the petition it appears that the plaintiff and defendant intermarried at Beatrice, Gage *350county, in 1873; that…