Marsh v. Marsh

The Chancellor.

The petition in this cause, filed on the twenty-sixth of August, 1861, asks a divorce from the defendant on the ground of wilful, continued, and obstinate desertion. The desertion is charged to have occurred in the month of March, 1858, and to have continued until the time of the filing of the petition. There is no dispute as to the material facts of the case. It appears, from the evidence, that at the time of the alleged desertion the petitioner and his wife were boarding together at No. 3 Eair street, in the city of Newark; that she left the house of her own accord, she…