Case Name: Maria L. Gourlay vs. George Gourlay
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1887-07-16
Citations: 15 R.I. 572
Docket Number: 
Parties: Maria L. Gourlay vs. George Gourlay.
Judges: 
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 572–572

Head Matter:
Maria L. Gourlay vs. George Gourlay.
Declarations of a petitioner for divorce as to domicil, unaccompanied by acts, are worthless as evidence.
Petition for divorce.
This petition was heard at the October Term, A. D. 1886, and again beard at this term on further evidence submitted by the petitioner as to her domicil.
July 16, 1887.
Harmon 8. Babeoch, for petitioner.
Amasa Mr Baton, for respondent.

Opinion:
Pee Cueiam.
The court is not satisfied that the petitioner had her domicil in this State for a year before the filing of her petition.
The new evidence consists mainly of her declarations, most of them unaccompanied by any act of which they were explanatory. Such declarations are entitled to little or no weight as evidence. Pickering v. Cambridge, 144 Mass. 244.