Case Name: Stephen Tourtelot, Libellant, versus Anna Tourtelot
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1808-09
Citations: 3 Tyng 506
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stephen Tourtelot, Libellant, versus Anna Tourtelot.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 442–442

Head Matter:
Stephen Tourtelot, Libellant, versus Anna Tourtelot.
Where a libel for a divorce a vinculo alleges a fact of adultery on one day, the Court will permit an amendment, charging the fact on another day; and, in such case, the respondent will be entitled to a continuance.
This was a libel for a divorce a vinculo for the cause of adultery, and it alleged the fact of adultery with a particular person, on a day certain.
Adams, for the libellant,
suggested that the witness, on whom he had relied for proof of the fact alleged, had died since the libel was filed; and he moved for leave to amend the libel by stating another act of adultery with the same person, on another day.

Opinion:
The Court
granted the motion, saying that the respondent would be entitled to a continuance, if she was not prepared to defend herself against the new allegation.