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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LEVI SCROGGINS v. JANE SCROGGINS.
    Divorce — adultery—occupying the same room and bed.
    Where a man occupy the same room with another’s wife, with but one bed, for eight or nine months, adultery may be presumed.
    Divorce. Cause, wilful absence, and adultery with Moses Bane, and another person, name unknown. It was proven, that the parties came from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, in the spring of 1826, and lived as man and wife. About five years ago she left, without any known cause, passed by the name of Beggs, and had lived with Moses Bane, as his intended wife. They occupied the same room, with one bed, eight or nine months. The plaintiff’s character is good.
    Divorce decreed.