Case ID: mass_2/html/0114-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Betsy Moore, Libellant, versus - Moore.
    A libel for a divorce must be originally filed in the county where the parties live
    This was a libel for a divorce a vinculo. The parties are described as inhabitants of the county of Hampshire. The libel was originally filed at Worcester, and notice ordered for the appearance of the respondent at this term.
    By the statute of March 16, 1786, entitled “ An Act for regulating marriage and divorce,” it is enacted “ that all questions of divorce and alimony shall be heard and tried by the Supreme Judicial Court liolden for the county where the parties live,” &c.
    
      Pynchon for the libellant.
   The Court

dismissed the libel, on the ground that it ought to have been filed originally, and notice to have been ordered in this county. 
      
      
         Vide Richardson vs. Richardson, post, 153. — Lane vs. Lane, post, 167. — Merry vs. Prince, 12 Mass. Rep. 312. — Squire vs. Squire, 3 Mass. Rep. 184.