Ohio Supreme Court, 1833

Barnes v. Barnes

Barnes v. Barnes
Ohio Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1833
1 Wright 475; 1 Ohio Ch. 475

Barnes v. Barnes

Opinion of the Court

BY THE COURT.

One cause alleged for the divorce is extreme-cruelty. Sufficient of cruelty has been proven to ground a decree upon, but the whole has been forgiven, and the parties afterwards lived together. After condonation, parties are not allowed to look back to a previous offence, as a ground of divorce. That is this-case. The absence, if for a sufficient time to entitle a party to a divorce, was by her own procurement. She hired her husband to leave her, and furnished him the means to go away. His absence-will not, therefore, avail.

Divorce refused.

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