Case ID: mass_4/html/0442-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stephen Tourtelot, Libellant, versus Anna Tourtelot.
    Where a libel for a divorce a vinculo alleges a fact of adultery on one day, the Court will permit an amendment, charging the fact on another day; and, in such case, the respondent will be entitled to a continuance.
    This was a libel for a divorce a vinculo for the cause of adultery, and it alleged the fact of adultery with a particular person, on a day certain.
    
      Adams, for the libellant,
    suggested that the witness, on whom he had relied for proof of the fact alleged, had died since the libel was filed; and he moved for leave to amend the libel by stating another act of adultery with the same person, on another day.
   The Court

granted the motion, saying that the respondent would be entitled to a continuance, if she was not prepared to defend herself against the new allegation.