Supreme Court of North Carolina October 1, 1924 (Garris v. Garris)

Hoke, C. J.

At common law there was in strictness no statute of limitations barring a divorce proceedings, though a court having jurisdiction would at times refuse relief where there had been unreasonable delay in making the application, a principle which has been embodied in the English Divorce-Act, referring the question to the sound legal discretion of the trial court.