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

MARGARET St. JOHN v. JOSIAH St. JOHN.
    Divorce' — wilful absence — sending wife home.
    ■When a man sends his wife to her friends, and leaves the country without any known cause, more than three years, he will be presumed wilfully absent.
    Divorce. Cause, wilful absence more than three years. It was proven that the parties were married in Warren county in 1827, and xemoved to Cincinnati, and lived there about a year together. He then sent her to her friends, and left the country for South America, without her knowledge, or any known cause, and has been absent since 1828. No difficulty was known to exist between them. It was supposed by his friends, that he thought her too old for him. Her ■character is good.
    Divorce decreed.