Gardner v. Gardner

STOKY, Circuit Justice.

This cause has undergone so able a discussion, and the authorities bearing upon the points in controversy have been so diligently collected, that the *1178labor of the court has been materially diminished. My own researches have not added much to the mass of learning brought forth from the books; and if, in deciding this ease, I do not enter into a minute commentary upon all the authorities, it is because full explanations have been already given of most of them at the bar; and because, after all, the principles, upon which the case must stand or fall, lie in a narrow…