Case ID: mass_11/html/0091-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary Ellis, Libellant, versus Levi Ellis.
    Upon a libel for a divorce a vinculo for adultery, where a second marriage of the respondent was to be proved, the Court would not receive the usual certificate of the officiating minister as evidence, but required his testimony upon oath.
    This was a libel for a divorce a vinculo for the adultery of the respondent. After proving the marriage of the parties by the Rev. Br. Stillman, in 1803, Parker, for the libellant, read a certificate from the Rev. Br. Lathrop of a second marriage with one Mcc j, Sawyer, such as is usually received as evidence of a lawful marriage in prosecutions of this kind.
   But the Court thought it not sufficient evidence for the purpose for which it was offered. The fact of the second marriage must be proved on oath.

Dr. Lathrop afterwards dame into Court, and, being sworn, testified to the fact of such second marriage, and a decree of divorce was passed.