Case ID: wright_1/html/0652-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "*BY THE COURT.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GEORGE JACOB v. CHRISTIANA JACOB.
    Divorce — deaf witness — evidence—interpreter—non-resident. .
    A deaf person who can neither read nor write may be sworn as a witness and examined by signs through the instrumentality of an interpreter who can make him understand.
    A non-resident cannot proceed here for a divorce.
    Divorce. Cause, adultery.
    A person entirely deaf \ who could neither read nor write, was introduced as a witness. The court were informed the witness could understand his family associates by observing the motion of their lips, when they conversed with him. e
    The court had one of them called into court, and through his instrumentality swore the witness. He seemed to understand the oath, and when interrogated answered intelligibly. His testimony proved a case of adultery in Indiana, and that the plaintiff still resided in that State.
   *BY THE COURT.

The plaintiff is a non-resident, and we have no jurisdiction of his application for divorce. He must apply whére he is domiciled. Bill dismissed.