Kilmartin v. Kilmartin

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 199
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 207

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Desertion—Residence—Jurisdiction.</p> <p>A decree of divorce in favor of a husband against a wife for desertion will be sustained where the evidence shows that the parties formerly lived in New York state, that eight years prior to the proceedings the husband had moved to Philadelphia for the reason that the factory in which he worked had been removed to that city, that he continuously residered in Pennsylvania thereafter, where he had regularly voted and earned his livelihood by continuous labor, that the actual desertion had occurred prior to the change of residence, that the wife claimed a settlement in Pennsylvania and invoked the aid of the quarter sessions, and that the desertion had been wilful and malicious and without probable cause.</p>