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21 Del. 152

Harmon v. Harmon

Superior Court of Delaware

Decided November 1, 1904

Superior Court of Delaware · decided 1904-11-01

Libel for Divorce The respondent, through her attorney, filed the following petition, namely: “ The petition of Mary V. Harmon, of Kent County and State of Delaware, respectfully represents: That her husband, Wilmore D. Harmon, has brought suit in divorce against her at this present term of Court and that she was duly served with the summons in said case at least 30 days before the beginning of the present term of this honorable Court; that she is a woman wholly without…

Decided 1904-11-01

Grubb, J.:

¶1You allege in your petition for divorce, filed' in this case, that they are married. Is not that an acknowledgment of record of the marriage ?

¶2Mr. Harrington:—Even admitting that, still there is no allegation that there was any voluntary separation. I simply say in the petition filed in the case that she was arrested and placed in jail on his complaint by reason of her cruelty to him. Such a separation is not the separation contemplated by law in divorce cases.

Lore, C. J.:

¶3—You have disclosed in your petition that this woman is the wife of your client and is in jail upon your client’s complaint and thus separated from her husband. She avers in her petition that she has no means of support. Even where the wife is living with her husband, but is without funds, we have granted her petition for expenses of suit.

¶4We make the order that the libellant pay the petitioner twenty dollars for expenses and four dollars a month for alimony; the twenty dollars to be paid within sixty days and the first payment of alimony to be made on the first day of December next.

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