Case ID: mass_2/html/0162-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Betsey Lane, Libellant, versus Joshua Lane.
    Where husband and wife have had no permanent place of residence, a libel for a divorce may be filed in the county where the libellant dwells after separation.
    This was a libel for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for • the adultery of the husband. It appeared that the [ * 168 ] * parties were married a few years since at Framingham, in this county, lived first at Northampton, in Hampshire, and afterwards at Neivburyport, in Essex, where the husband deserted his wife, and has since continued out of the state. The wife, immediately on being left by her husband, returned to her father’s family at Framingham, and still resides there.
    
      Tyler for the libellant.
   The Court

hesitated at first to take cognizance of the libel, as the parties had never lived together in the county, but, as it appeared that they had no permanent place of residence, a decree passed to divorce them. 
      
      
         Vide Moore vs. Moore, ante, 117.— Hill vs. Hill, ante, 150. — Richardson vs. Richardson, ante, 153.