Brown v. Brown

This is a wife’s petition-for divorce from bed and board. The cause was heard in the superior court on the respondent’s pleas to the jurisdiction of that court over the subject matter. After the hearing the trial justice overruled the pleas in a written decision to which he later filed what he termed an “addendum” supplying certain inadvertent omissions in the decision. The cause is here on the respondent’s bill of exceptions to the decision and also on his appeal from the addendum which he filed because of doubt as to the effect thereof on his exceptions.

In our opinion the cause is properly…