Braun ex rel. Steelsmith v. Braun

Citations

• 194 Pa. 287
• 44 A. 1096
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 383

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Pleading—Multifariousness.</p> <p>A libel for divorce a vinculo matrimonii is not multifarious because it sots up two causes of divorce, cruel and barbarous treatment and adultery.</p> <p>Divorce — Cruel and barbarous treatment.</p> <p>A decree granting a divorce to a wife will be sustained when the evidence shows that the husband, in his conduct toward his wife, was guilty ■of vile indecency, obscenity, dreadful profanity, and coarse and brutal vulgarity, and that he added to this charges against the virtue of his wife, denying the paternity of his children, accusing her of adultery, compelling her to take dangerous drugs, and urging her to consent to a criminal operation, with a view to abortion, and spreading his accusations broadcast, without any apparent cause, except an insane and unfounded jealousy.</p>