Clawell v. Clawell

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 88
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 107

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Adultery—Luring wife — Corrupt evidence — Detective agency.</p> <p>A man who suspects a wife may take means to procure proof, but he must not lead her into a fresh wrong because he feels she is guilty of an old one.</p> <p>A libel by a husband against his wife for divorce will be dismissed where each of the three witnesses for the libellant on whose testimony a master’s first report was based, when called at second hearing, admitted that his former testimony was a deliberate lie in regard to every incriminating fact, and it is shown that these witnesses had been suborned to so testify through a detective operative employed by the libellant, who had furnished the necessary money for the purpose.</p>