Welfer v. Welfer
Welfer v. Welfer
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The complainant’s petition alleged two causes of divorce: cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities to the person. The cruelty which entitles a woman to a divorce is actual personal violence or the reasonable ap
If there were any doubt on that point, however, it cannot be questioned that the testimony makes out a case of indignities to the person. It is not necessary to review the evidence on that branch of the case. The repeated acts of profanity, vulgarity, offensive epithets and personal violence shown by the testimony offei’ed in support of the case were sufficient to sustain the decree.
The offers of testimony presented by the respondent and rejected by the court were not responsive to the plaintiff’s case and the specifications of the bill of particulars. The evidence proposed might tend to account in part for the complainant’s dissatisfaction with her husband but
The decree is affirmed.
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- Divorce — Cruel and barbarous treatment — Indignities to person — Evidence. 1. The cruelty which entitles a woman to a divorce is actual personal violence or the reasonable apprehension of it, or of such a course of treatment which endangers her life or health, and renders her habitation unsafe. 2. A woman is entitled to a divorce if she shows by her own testimony corroborated by other witnesses, that her husband was guilty of repeated acts of personal violence, of profanity and vulgarity, that he threatened her and that he pointed a revolver at her.