Case Name: Scott v. Scott
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1787-03
Citations: 1 Kirby 270
Docket Number: 
Parties: Scott v. Scott.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 270–270

Head Matter:
Scott v. Scott.

Opinion:
IPetitioN for divorce, on the ground of willful desertion, for more than three years. The petitioner was not present in court; but the facts being substantially proved, and that the desertion had been of long continuance, upwards of twenty years — The court dispensed with the petitioner's personal appearance, and said it had been before done, in the case of a Mrs. Thompson, in the county of Hartford, whose husband was supposed to be lost at sea, and she being unable to attend court. '