Case Name: EMILY ROBERTS v. WILLIAM ROBERTS
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1832-10
Citations: 1 Wright 149
Docket Number: 
Parties: EMILY ROBERTS v. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 150–150

Head Matter:
EMILY ROBERTS v. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
Divorce — wilful absence — alimony.
Wilful absence for more than three years, without any known cause, is good ground for a divorce.
Divorce. Cause — three years’ wilful absence.
Those parties were married in June, and lived together till August, 1828; when, without any known cause, he left her, and went off, and has not been heard of since. She had a child in May, 1829, which is still living, and has maintained a good character,

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
Let the jiarties be divorced, and the custody of the child given to the mother. The defendant is ordered to pay her $200 in sixty days for alimony, and the costs, and in default she may take execution.