Steel v. . Steel
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Divorce — Adultery — Demurrer — Incest — Fraud —Abandonment — Husband and Wife — Pleading. This was an ACTION for divorce a vinculo matrimonii, tried at the August Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of Surry County, before Gilmer, J. The complaint is as follows: “ 1. That, on the 13th day of March, 1887, the plaintiff and defendant were married in Surry County, North Carolina.
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Divorce — Adultery — Demurrer — Incest — Fraud —Abandonment — Husband and Wife — Pleading. This was an ACTION for divorce a vinculo matrimonii, tried at the August Term, 1889, of the Superior Court of Surry County, before Gilmer, J. The complaint is as follows: “ 1. That, on the 13th day of March, 1887, the plaintiff and defendant were married in Surry County, North Carolina. “ 2. That, at the time of said marriage, the plaintiff had every reason to believe, and did believe, that the defendant was a virtuous woman, she being a young woman of about nineteen years of age. “ 3. That, shortly…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
— after stating the facts: The statute (The Code, §1285) permits a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony only on application of the injured party, and in one of the four following cases:
“1. If either party shall separate from the other and live in adultery.
“2. If the wife shall commit adultery.
“ 3. If either party was, and still is, naturally impotent.
“4. If the wife, at the time of the marriage, be pregnant, and the husband be ignorant of the fact of such pregnancy, and be not the father of the child with which the wife was pregnant at the time of the marriage.”
Sub-section 2 was first…
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