Case ID: mass_4/html/0515-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      But by the Court.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rebekah Reemie, Libellant, versus John Marcus Reemie.
    Proof of a second marriage, without evidence of cohabitation, is not of itself sufficient to maintain a libel for a divorce.
    Upon a libel for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for the adultery of the husband, the libellant proved the respondent’s marriage with her, and then produced and read a certificate of a second marriage of the respondent, with another woman, and relied on the presumption of cohabitation.
    
      Ward for the libellant.
   But by the Court.

This is not sufficient. It is still necessary to prove cohabitation, or actual criminal intercourse.

The libellant afterwards gave evidence of actual cohabitation; and a divorce was decreed.