Case Name: Anna Squire, Libellant, versus Ichabod Squire
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1807-09
Citations: 2 Tyng 184
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Anna Squire, Libellant, versus Ichabod Squire.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 157–158

Head Matter:
* Anna Squire, Libellant, versus Ichabod Squire.
The Court will sustain a libel for a divorce, where the evidence is that the adultery was committed in another state, the respondent having no settled place of residence, and the libellant dwelling in the county where the libel is filed at the time of the adultery committed.
This was a libel for a divorce a vinculo for the adultery of the husband. The evidence was, that the crime was committed in Connecticut. The husband had occasionally dwelt in different towns of that state, and of New Yorlc, appearing to have had no settled place of residence. The libellant lived in this county when the crime ivas committed, and has continued here ever since.

Opinion:
The Court
held this case to be within the principle of Lane vs Lane , and sustained the libel.
2 Mass. Rep. 167.—[Vide Richardson vs. Richardson, 2 Mass. 153.—Ed.]