Case Name: PHEBE DUNBAR v. ANNANIAS DUNBAR
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1833-06
Citations: 1 Wright 286
Docket Number: 
Parties: PHEBE DUNBAR v. ANNANIAS DUNBAR.
Judges: JUDGES — OOLDETT AND WRIGHT.
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: 292–292

Head Matter:
WARREN COUNTY,
JUNE TERM, 1833.
JUDGES — OOLDETT AND WRIGHT.
PHEBE DUNBAR v. ANNANIAS DUNBAR.
Divorce — conduct of the petitioner — binding prosecutor over for adultery.
When it appears the petitioner has been several years living with a person who is in court conducting her prosecution, and had children by him, the bill will be dismissed, though the husband has also married another wife.
A witness or party who appears in court to have committed a crime against the laws, maybe ordered into custody by the court, examined, and recognized to appear before the Common Pleas for trial.
Divorce. Cause, wilful absence. This suit was conducted at the instance of a man by the name of Keeler, by Williams, for the petitioner. The evidence introduced proved the absence of the 287] ^defendant, and that for six or seven years last past, he lived at the Bayou Sarah, in the lower Mississippi, and had married there. It appeared in evidence also, that for six or seven years, the petitioner had been living with Keeler as his wife, and had children by him.
Williams — No, I was unacquainted with the facts.

Opinion:
THE COURT
inquired of the counsel if he prosecuted the inquiry further ?
BY THE COURT. The bill is dismissed. The sheriff will take charge of Keeler, who is in court, until we have leisure to examine into this charge against him for adultery.
The prosecuting attorney was then sent for, and an examination had before the court, and Keeler recognized to appear at the next Court of Common Pleas, to answer the charge of adultery.