Glenn v. Glenn

Citations

• 84 Wash. 215
• 146 P. 619
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 787

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Grounds—Pleading—Sufficiency of Cross-Complaint. A cross-complaint for divorce by a husband sufficiently states the statutory grounds of cruel treatment and personal indignities rendering life burdensome, where it alleges that, for twelve years after marriage, their relations were agreeable; that, upon a voyage by the wife to the Philippines, she made the acquaintance of certain men, and that thereafter her disposition and conduct toward defendant were utterly changed, and instead of love and affection she manifested only hatred and aversion for her husband, denying to him his marital rights and exhibiting a cold-blooded avarice which she had never shown before, and that she was thereafter more susceptible to the blandishments of other men and maintained correspondence with other men of the most improper nature.</p> <p>Evidence — Best and Secondary — Copies of Letters. Properly proved copies of letters are admissible, where the originals were in the possession of the adverse party, and proper foundation had been laid by notice and demand to produce the originals, which the adverse party failed to do; their cogency and weight being for the jury.</p> <p>Divorce — Grounds—Improper Conduct — Evidence — Sufficiency. A decree of divorce in favor of the husband is sustained by evidence in the form of original letters, and copies of letters, where the originals were not produced on demand, written by other men to his wife, tending to show a libidinous disposition toward the wife on the part of such correspondents, and where it appeared that she took pleasure in the society of such men and apparently made no effort to cause the correspondence to cease.</p> <p>Divorce — Defenses—Result op Divorce. Where a wife brings an action for a divorce and fails to prove her case, it is no objection to a divorce in favor of the husband on his cross-complaint, or ground for granting her a divorce, that the grounds for the husband’s divorce cast a stigma upon her name and bran