Case ID: mass_7/html/0396-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Broadstreet, Libellant, versus. Lucinda Broad street.
    Upon the suggestion of the counsel for the respondent in a libel for a divorce, that she was insane, the Court admitted the counsel to plead to the libel in the name of the respondent.
    
      Mellen for the libellant.
   The libel charged adultery in the wife on a day certain, and prayed a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.

Wilde suggested to the Court that the wife was insane at the time mentioned in the libel, and that she had continued so to this time; and expressing some doubt as to the mode of his appearing in her behalf in the cause, the Court said he should be admitted to: plead in her name. He pleaded that she was not guilty of the crime alleged; and the insanity being proved to the satisfaction of the Court, the libel was dismissed.