Hexamer v. Hexamer

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 226
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 320

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Cruel and barbarous treatment — Act of June 25, 1895,. P. L. 308.</p> <p>1. A libel for divorce brought by a husband against his wife for cruel and barbarous treatment will be dismissed where the only grounds alleged were that the wife was not a good cook although she had alleged herself so to be; that she had been guilty of five acts of trivial violence to the libelant the last of which occurred about six years</p> <p>before the libelant left her; and that she had refused during the period they cohabited, to have unrestrained sexual intercourse with him.</p> <p>2. The cruel and barbarous treatment and the indignities to the person, rendering the condition of the husband intolerable or life burdensome, which are by the act of June 25, 1895, made a cause for divorce relate to the personal treatment of the husband by the wife. The pangs of jealousy caused by the conduct of the wife with other men may render the condition of the husband intolerable and his life burdensome, but for such a result produced by such a cause, the act does not confer upon the courts jurisdiction to decree a divorce.</p>