Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1806

Holland v. Holland

Holland v. Holland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1806
2 Mass. 154

Holland v. Holland

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The rule is established by uniform practice that the confession of the party, unsupported by other evidence, is not sufficient to ground a divorce upon. To vary from this rule would be opening a door for the collusion of parties, and be attended with consequences very mischievous to society. If the confession of either party was sufficient evidence to obtain a divorce a vinculo, a contract of marriage would be at the will of both the parties. (a)

The divorce was refused.

Baxter vs. Baxter, 1 Mass. Rep. 346. — Betts vs. Betts, 1 Johns. Ch. R. 197.

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