Case ID: mass_12/html/0273-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary Merry versus Leonard Merry.
    A libel for a divorce was presented in one county, praying for an order of notice returnable in another county, where it was regularly to be heard. Such notice being ordered and duly served, the libel was sustained.
    This was a libel for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for the cause of adultery, in which the domicil of the libellant is [*313] stated to be in Farmington, in this county, *and it is alleged that the respondent has removed from thence to a place called Lyons, in the State of New York.
    
   The libel was presented to the Court holden by a single judge in the county of Cumberland, at the last October term, and contained a prayer, that notice might be ordered for the respondent’s appearance here, at the present term, to answer to the libel. The judge, at the term aforesaid, ordered notice to be given three weeks successively, &c., in the Columbian Centinel.

The notice appearing to have been published as ordered, the Court expressed some doubt as to the regularity of the procedure ; but, after examining the statute, sustained the libel.