Case ID: nh_58/html/0152-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Doe, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cone v. Cone.
    Actual imprisonment in the state prison under a sentence for more than a year is a cause of divorce, not suspended by a bill of exceptions on which the conviction may be reversed.
    Libel, for divorce. The cause alleged and proved was the defendant’s actual imprisonment in the state prison, under a sentence for more than a year, for manslaughter. A bill of exceptions, for the reversal of the judgment, is pending. A divorce was decreed, and the defendant excepted.
    
      Copeland and Quarles, for the defendant.
    
      Hill, for the plaintiff.
   Doe, C. J.

The defendant’s actual imprisonment under the judg ment is a cause of divorce. The statute does not recognize the reversible character of such judgments as a reason for suspending their operation in proceedings for divorce. Gen. St., c. 163, s. 3.

Exception overruled.

Bingham, J., did not sit.