Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Louise N. Lane, Appellant, for Leave to Dissolve Her Marriage with Albert D. Lane on the Ground of Absence
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1931-01
Citations: 232 A.D. 690
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Louise N. Lane, Appellant, for Leave to Dissolve Her Marriage with Albert D. Lane on the Ground of Absence.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 232
Pages: 690–691

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Louise N. Lane, Appellant, for Leave to Dissolve Her Marriage with Albert D. Lane on the Ground of Absence.

Opinion:
Order denying application of petitioner for an order of publication of a notice of presentation and object of petition for dissolution of a marriage pursuant to section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law reversed upon the law and the facts, and the matter remitted to the Special T erm with directions to the Special Term te grant the application and sign the order therefor. The petition sufficiently sets out facts complying with section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law. The fact that continued absence of the missing spouse for five years last past was preceded by a voluntary desertion does not, as a matter of law, preclude a dissolution of the marriage. It is a circumstance to be considered upon the hearing under the petition in connection with the determination of the truth of the allegations necessary to be established under section 7-a before a dissolution of the marriage may be decreed. Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Tompkins, JJ., concur.
Added by Laws of 1922, chap. 279, known as the Enoch Arden Act.— [Rep.