Power v. Power

Pitney, Y. C.

(orally).

I think this case should be disposed of at once. It comes before the court in a -peculiar manner, and it is better that I should state it over again, so that there shall be no mistake about it.

The wife, Mrs. Power, filed a petition in this court'on the 8th of November, 1902, against her husband, praying for divorce on the ground of desertion for two years — alleging the desertion to have taken place in the fall of the year 1899. She therein states that she has two children, giving their ages. The first one was born on the 15th of May, 1894, and is consequently now nine…