Burnard v. Burnard

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 62
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 170

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Gruel and barbarous treatment — Indignities to the person — Evidence.</p> <p>A divorce in ex parte proceedings -will not be granted to a wife on the ground of cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities to the person, where the evidence shows that the parties lived together for only three and one-half months in the house of the wife’s father when the husband left her; that while they lived together, the husband at times; referred to relations which he had previously sustained with another woman, for the purpose of giving his wife the impression that he still loved his former companion more than he did his wife; that there was no proof that the woman he spoke aboub had any existence; that the husband offered slights to his wife on several occasions; and there was no attempt made to show that such course of treatment was continuous.</p>