Moore v. Moore

This bill was filed by the complainant asking a decree of divorce from the defendant, his wife, upon two grounds, first, that she had committed adultery, and, second, that she had contracted a second marriage with one Frank Edwards, knowing at the time that her previous marriage with complainant was valid and subsisting.

The wife answered this bill, and, with other aver-ments, stated that she had been abandoned by complainant when in an enceinte condition, resulting from her short association with him as his wife, and that after this, and when sick, penniless, and in the midst of strangers,…