Case Name: Ebenezer Winslow, Libellant, versus Susannah Winslow
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1810-10
Citations: 6 Tyng 96
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ebenezer Winslow, Libellant, versus Susannah Winslow.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 81–81

Head Matter:
Ebenezer Winslow, Libellant, versus Susannah Winslow.
A libel for divorce cannot be sued by a guardian of a spendthrift.
The libel in this case, which was for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, for the adultery of the wife, was subscribed by a guardian, who had been appointed over the libellant, by the judge of probate, as a spendthrift.
Holmes for the libellant.

Opinion:
The Court
said it would be monstrous to dissolve a marriage upon such an application. It could not be known that the party ever gave his assent to the prosecution. If he is desirous of a divorce, and has sufficient ground to obtain one, he must file his libel in his own name.
Libel dismissed.