Case Name: GEORGE JACOB v. CHRISTIANA JACOB
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1834-06
Citations: 1 Wright 631
Docket Number: 
Parties: GEORGE JACOB v. CHRISTIANA JACOB.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 652–652

Head Matter:
GEORGE JACOB v. CHRISTIANA JACOB.
Divorce — deaf witness — evidence—interpreter—non-resident. .
A deaf person who can neither read nor write may be sworn as a witness and examined by signs through the instrumentality of an interpreter who can make him understand.
A non-resident cannot proceed here for a divorce.
Divorce. Cause, adultery.
A person entirely deaf \ who could neither read nor write, was introduced as a witness. The court were informed the witness could understand his family associates by observing the motion of their lips, when they conversed with him. e
The court had one of them called into court, and through his instrumentality swore the witness. He seemed to understand the oath, and when interrogated answered intelligibly. His testimony proved a case of adultery in Indiana, and that the plaintiff still resided in that State.

Opinion:
*BY THE COURT.
The plaintiff is a non-resident, and we have no jurisdiction of his application for divorce. He must apply whére he is domiciled. Bill dismissed.