Case Name: Cone v. Cone
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1877-08
Citations: 58 N.H. 152
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cone v. Cone.
Judges: Bingham, J., did not sit.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 58
Pages: 152–152

Head Matter:
Cone v. Cone.
Actual imprisonment in the state prison under a sentence for more than a year is a cause of divorce, not suspended by a bill of exceptions on which the conviction may be reversed.
Libel, for divorce. The cause alleged and proved was the defendant’s actual imprisonment in the state prison, under a sentence for more than a year, for manslaughter. A bill of exceptions, for the reversal of the judgment, is pending. A divorce was decreed, and the defendant excepted.
Copeland and Quarles, for the defendant.
Hill, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Doe, C. J.
The defendant's actual imprisonment under the judg ment is a cause of divorce. The statute does not recognize the reversible character of such judgments as a reason for suspending their operation in proceedings for divorce. Gen. St., c. 163, s. 3.
Exception overruled.
Bingham, J., did not sit.