LAWSON v. BENNETT

No. 19.

81 S.E.2d 162 (1954)

240 N.C. 52

LAWSON v. BENNETT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 7, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Reid Dalton, Reidsville, A. D. Folger, Jr., Madison, for plaintiff appellant.

Brown, Scurry & McMichael, Reidsville, for defendant appellee.


WINBORNE, Justice.

The foremost question here is this: Where a spouse, the wife in the instant case, has suffered impairment of mind to such an extent that she does not have sufficient mental capacity to understand what she is engaged in doing, and the nature and consequences of her act, may the other spouse, the husband here, maintain an action against her for divorce on the ground of two years' separation, that is, under...

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