Simpson v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. This was an action for a divorce by John Simpson against Jane Simpson. The court refused to grant the divorce. It made a decree granting to the defendant an allowance of two hundred dollars per year out of the estate of the plaintiff, and allowing the defendant to “ act for herself and receive and hold in her own right her wages and earnings without interference or control of said plaintiff.”
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Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. This was an action for a divorce by John Simpson against Jane Simpson. The court refused to grant the divorce. It made a decree granting to the defendant an allowance of two hundred dollars per year out of the estate of the plaintiff, and allowing the defendant to “ act for herself and receive and hold in her own right her wages and earnings without interference or control of said plaintiff.” I. Plaintiff was not bound to support defendant. Defendant alleged in her answer that plaintiff consented to the separation. The court erred in finding the issues…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This is a proceeding by the husband to procure a divorce on the ground that his wife has absented herself, without a reasonable cause, for two years and more.
It appears that the parties were married in 1840 in the city of New York, whe.re they continued to reside for about ten years, during which time there were three children born of the marriage; that in 1850 they removed to Binghampton, a *26town in the interior of that state; that in 1852 the defendant returned to the city of New York with her children and has resided there in her mother’s house, until her recent removal to this state for…
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