Harrison v. Harrison

Citations

• 69 Pa. Super. 580
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 139

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Residence—Evidence—Act of March 8,1815, 1 8m. L. 286.</p> <p>A libellant in divorce cannot establish the fact of a legal residence in Pennsylvania, by proof that he rented a room in a rooming house in Philadelphia for the sum of fifteen dollars a month, that he spent on an average at least two nights a week at the house during the year, that he did not pay tax or vote anywhere, that he had no business of any kind in Pennsylvania, that his only property in this State were the personal belongings that were temporarily left at his rooming house, and that all his relatives lived in New Jersey where he had formerly lived, and from which he made no suggestion of moving, and of taking up Pennsylvania as his permanent residence.</p>