Appeal of Nye

Citations

• 126 Pa. 341
• 17 A. 618
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 878

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a wife abandoned her husband several years before his death, without such reasonable cause as would entitle her to a divorce, she is not entitled to the benefit of the exemption of §300 out of his estate, under the act of April 14, 1851, P. L. 613.</p> <p>2. A single act of indignity, or of coarse and ungallant violence, even though it amount to a technical assault, is not such conduct on the part of the husband as will justify a divorce at the suit of the wife.</p> <p>3. But a wife’s right to her dower interest in the estate of her deceased husband does not depend upon the existence of the family relation at his death, and it is not barred, therefore, by her abandonment of her husband in his lifetime without reasonable cause.</p>