Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1797

Carre ex rel. Taylor v. Carre

Carre ex rel. Taylor v. Carre
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided March 15, 1797
2 Yeates 207

Carre ex rel. Taylor v. Carre

Opinion of the Court

Per ewriam.

The 10th section of the act passed 19th September 1785, (2 Dall. St Laws, 387,) directs, tbat upon due proof, of cruel treatment, &c. in manner aforesaid, the court may grant a divorce from bed and board. The words are not on due proof and trial, &c. referring to the third section of the act. This case therefore is left as it is in the civil law, to a trial by tbe court fer testes, and there is strong reason lor the distinction between such divorces and those from the bonds of matrimony.

Motion denied.

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