Porter v. Porter

Walker, Chancellor.

This was a divorce case in which the petitioner charged the defendant with willful, continued and obstinate desertion, and prayed a divorce a vinculo matrimonii accordingly. The defendant was served with process of citation and a copy of the petition. At the time of such service he was confined in the New Jersey state hospital at Trenton as an insane person, and *401the clerk of this court was thereafter appointed guardian ad litem for him in this cause. The matter was referred to Richard C. Chamberlain, Esquire, one of the special masters of this court, to take depositions and…