Platt v. Platt

Citations

• 38 Pa. Super. 551
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 183

Syllabus

<p>Divorce — Cruel and barbarous treatment — Evidence.</p> <p>1. A wife’s refusal to have sexual intercourse with her husband is not legal cruelty and is not a ground for divorce.</p> <p>2. A husband’s suit for divorce against his wife on the ground of cruel and barbarous treatment will be dismissed, where the evidence shows that the wife was irritable, nagging, bad tempered, and lacking in affection for her husband, that she made indefinite threats, but did not carry them out, and never offered him physical violence.</p> <p>3. The acts or conduct of the wife towards her husband that will entitle the latter to a divorce on the ground of cruel and barbarous treatment must be not only such as render his condition intolerable or life burdensome, but such as amount to legal cruelty.</p>