Illg v. Illg

Citations

• 78 Pa. Super. 212
• 1922 Pa. Super. LEXIS 87

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Adultery—Connivance—Fraud by agent.</p> <p>Divorces are only granted where allowed by statute, and, where a husband seeks a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery, the law affords him no relief, where his wife’s prostitution has been connived at and encouraged by him.</p> <p>Where the libellant employed a detective for the purpose of obtaining evidence of his wife’s misconduct, to the end that he might obtain a divorce, and the detective then went about the matter in a manner calculated not so much to obtain evidence of the respondent’s adultery as to bring it about, the libellant is answerable for his agent’s fraud, and cannot be allowed redress from the courts for the act brought about by his own agent.</p> <p>It was error to grant a divorce in such case, and, upon appeal, the decree will be reversed, and the libel dismissed.</p>