Hurtzig v. Hurtzig

The Chancellor.

The petition is filed by the husband against the wife for divorce, upon the ground of adultery. There is no direct evidence of the fact of adultery, but it is claimed that the circumstances proved sustain the charge. It is not requisite that there shall be direct proof of this crime, for if that were the rule, there is not one case in a hundred where such proof would be attainable. The *330crime is almost invariably clandestine, and committed only when: every precaution is taken to preclude the possibility of its discovery. Familiar indicia of it are : loss of affection that is due…