Legal Opinion

Bennett v. Bennett

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 9, 1946No. Appeal, 8PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

On the testimony in this ease, the lower court was clearly right in dismissing the libel.

The parties were married in 1921. The respondent left their home in Blairsville, with their two children, on August 10, 1940. Since then she and her children have been living with her father in Vandergrift. Marital relations ceased when respondent withdrew from the common domicile. In meeting the charge of desertion, therefore, the burden shifted to respondent to justify the separation- — since libellant did not consent to it— by evidence of such acts of libellant as would entitle her to a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ussler v. UsslerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1945

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Quieti v. QuietiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1949

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