Case Name: Rebekah Reemie, Libellant, versus John Marcus Reemie
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1808-11
Citations: 3 Tyng 586
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rebekah Reemie, Libellant, versus John Marcus Reemie.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 515–515

Head Matter:
Rebekah Reemie, Libellant, versus John Marcus Reemie.
Proof of a second marriage, without evidence of cohabitation, is not of itself sufficient to maintain a libel for a divorce.
Upon a libel for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for the adultery of the husband, the libellant proved the respondent’s marriage with her, and then produced and read a certificate of a second marriage of the respondent, with another woman, and relied on the presumption of cohabitation.
Ward for the libellant.

Opinion:
But by the Court.
This is not sufficient. It is still necessary to prove cohabitation, or actual criminal intercourse.
The libellant afterwards gave evidence of actual cohabitation; and a divorce was decreed.