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185 Mass. 361

Lind v. Lind

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1904-03-31

Petition, filed in the Superior Court March 16, 1901, for nullity of marriage. The case came to this court on an appeal from an order dismissing the petition on two motions of the respondent.

Decided 1904-03-31

Loring, J.

¶1A motion to dismiss a petition for nullity of marriage on the ground that the petitioner is in contempt for not complying with an order of the court directing him to pay $30 into court for the expenses of the respondent, does not stand on the same footing as a motion to dismiss a common law writ for irregularities not going to the jurisdiction of the court, as the petitioner contends. Such a motion is the proper way of bringing the fact of the contempt to the attention of the court, and need not be filed within the time allowed for pleas in abatement.

¶2The petitioner was entitled to be heard on this motion, and on the record before us we assume that he was heard.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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