Perkins v. . Perkins
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION for divorce tried at July Special Term, 1882, of GastoN Superior Court, before Gudger, J. The plaintiff brings this action against his wife, seeking to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii, and alleges that he intermarried with the defendant in Gaston county in August, 1857 — both being then and at all times since residents of said county; that about the 15th of July, 1872, the defendant was guilty of adultery with one Michael Rhodes, and was before and after that…
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Civil ACTION for divorce tried at July Special Term, 1882, of GastoN Superior Court, before Gudger, J. The plaintiff brings this action against his wife, seeking to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii, and alleges that he intermarried with the defendant in Gaston county in August, 1857 — both being then and at all times since residents of said county; that about the 15th of July, 1872, the defendant was guilty of adultery with one Michael Rhodes, and was before and after that tiriie guilty of repeated acts of adultery with said Rhodes and other persons in said county; that plaintiff then…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, J.
The complaint is so meagre in its statement of the facts, and, even taken in connection with the proofs, furnishes so little insight into the conduct of the parties, and particularly the treatment of the wife by the husband prior to her alleged delinquency, that it i¡> a relief to the court to be able to say, that, according to our understanding of the law, no error was committed in the court below, of which the plaintiff can justly complain. Indeed, though not entirely apparent, we cannot avoid an impression, arising out of the statement of the case itself, that, as it was, he succeeded in…
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