Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0631-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      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.
    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 where he is- domiciled. Bill dismissed.