Parker v. Parker

This is a petition for divorce from bed and board on the ground of gross misbehavior. The respondent is a resident of Charleston, West Virginia. This cause is before us on her appeal 1 from certain rulings made by the family court in granting the instant petition.

It is respondent’s contention that the family court erred (1) in ruling that she was petitioner’s common-law wife and (2) in holding that petitioner was a domiciled inhabitant of Rhode Island. Because we believe that petitioner failed to prove that he had a domicile in this state, we deem it unnecessary to determine if the trial…