Billings v. Billings

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Billings v. Billings

28 Mass. 461

CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

DecidedOctober 11, 1831

StatusPublished

Cited by1 cases

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Billings v. Billings, 28 Mass. 461 (Mass. 1831).

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Morton J.,

before whom the trial took place, said he had advised [470]*470with the other judges on the question, whether the libellee’s confessions of adultery were alone sufficient evidence to authorize a decree of divorce ; that the reason for requiring other evidence is, in general, to prevent collusion ; that the circumstances here proved by other evidence than the confessions showed there could be no collusion ; and that all the Court were of opinion that the proof of the adultery was sufficient.

Divorce decreed.

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Morton J.,

before whom the trial took place, said he had advised [470]*470with the other judges on the question, whether the libellee’s confessions of adultery were alone sufficient evidence to authorize a decree of divorce ; that the reason for requiring other evidence is, in general, to prevent collusion ; that the circumstances here proved by other evidence than the confessions showed there could be no collusion ; and that all the Court were of opinion that the proof of the adultery was sufficient.

Divorce decreed.

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