Bullock v. Bullock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel on the Gen. Sts. c. 107, § 4, for a sentence of nullity of marriage, setting forth that the ceremony of marriage was performed between the libellant and libellee in this Commonwealth "on January 25, 1873, and that the marriage was void, because the libellee on August 5, 1857, had been married to Daniel Lewis, of New London, Connecticut, and that Lewis at a Superior Court, held in and for the county of New London in December, 1864, had been divorced from the libellee…
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Libel on the Gen. Sts. c. 107, § 4, for a sentence of nullity of marriage, setting forth that the ceremony of marriage was performed between the libellant and libellee in this Commonwealth "on January 25, 1873, and that the marriage was void, because the libellee on August 5, 1857, had been married to Daniel Lewis, of New London, Connecticut, and that Lewis at a Superior Court, held in and for the county of New London in December, 1864, had been divorced from the libellee for the cause of adultery. At the hearing, before Bndieott, J., the record of the court in Connecticut was introduced in…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
At the time of the divorce obtained against the libellee by her first husband in Connecticut, for her adultery, he appears to have been domiciled in Connecticut, and is not shown to have removed into that state for the purpose of procuring a divorce. The court of that state therefore had jurisdiction of the cause and of both the parties, and its decree dissolved the bond of matrimony absolutely and everywhere, even if the adultery was committed out of Connecticut, of which there is no evidence. Gen. Sts. c. 107, § 55. Burlen v. Shannon, 115 Mass. 438, and cases there cited.
The libellee, being…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LaneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Burlen v. ShannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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