Case ID: wright_1/html/0150-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EMILY ROBERTS v. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
    Divorce — wilful absence — alimony.
    Wilful absence for more than three years, without any known cause, is good ground for a divorce.
    Divorce. Cause — three years’ wilful absence.
    Those parties were married in June, and lived together till August, 1828; when, without any known cause, he left her, and went off, and has not been heard of since. She had a child in May, 1829, which is still living, and has maintained a good character,
   BY THE COURT.

Let the jiarties be divorced, and the custody of the child given to the mother. The defendant is ordered to pay her $200 in sixty days for alimony, and the costs, and in default she may take execution.