McCormac v. McCormac
McCormac v. McCormac
Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
While appellant’s conduct during the short period that they lived together was in every respect correct, and that of appellee, on the 13th of November, 1868, was unkind, violent, and wholly without cause, or even slight provocation on her part, still, as he very soon thereafter, perhaps the very next day, sent an apology for his misbehavior and offered to provide a comfortable, respectable home for her, if she would share it with him, and as he was bound to provide the home, it was proper for her to have gone, and made au effort by a continuation of that blameless conduct which had marked her short married life, to win his highest regard, and smooth the path, upon which they had just entered, as they doubtless hoped in the start to travel through life together. The violence of his conduct on the evening of the 13th of November, 1868, within two weeks after their marriage, was such as to excite justly her apprehension of future domestic troubles. But as it was the husband’s duty to provide her future home, appellant could not consistently insist on his selecting one that was dissatis
Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.
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