Tolen v. Tolen

The plaintiff filed her petition in the Decatur Circuit Court praying a divorce from her husband, the defendant; by which it appears they were married in the state of Kentucky where they both resided, and that they continued to reside there as man and wife, after their marriage, until in the year 1822 or 1823 when the defendant eloped with an adulteress, with whom he has ever since lived, and by whom he has had five or six children; that two or three years after the elopement, the plaintiff removed to the state of Indiana and permanently settled in the county of Decatur, where she has resided…