Gordon v. Gordon

This appeal was prosecuted from a decree of divorce rendered in favor of the plaintiff. In view of the fact that an essential jurisdictional averment is not in the petition, we will state neither the grounds of divorce alleged, nor the evidence offered in support of the allegations, which, however, séems to us to be weak in comparison with the countervailing evidence. The petition contains no averment that the plaintiff had resided within this State one Avhole year next before the filing of the petition, or that the grievances complained of were committed within the State whilst one or both…