Court Opinion

ID: 8169053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 21:07:55.758689+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:39:43.754987
License: Public Domain

Watson, C. J.
[1, 2] This is a libel for divorce on the ground of wilful desertion, brought to the county court in Caledonia County. The libelee resides out of the State. The facts found are a part of the record. The court failed to find that the libelant had the residence in Caledonia County essential to juris*95diction of the ease. Was the failure so to find error? is a question presented in review. It being a question of fact, we are to consider only whether the evidence was such as to entitle the libelant to such a finding as a matter of law. It is unnecessary to state the evidence in detail. Let it suffice that we have examined the record carefully and are convinced that the evidence including the circumstances, was not so conclusively in favor of the libelant as to make erroneous the failure of the court to find the necessary residence for jurisdiction. To give jurisdiction domicile was essential, and to constitute that not only residence in that county was necessary, but an intention to remain was also necessary, neither of which without the other was sufficient. Blondin v. Brooks, 83 Vt. 472, 76 Atl. 184.

Judgment affirmed.