Colby v. Colby

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This is an action for divorce grounded on incompatibility of temperament, 16 V.I.C. § 104(8). It is contested by the wife, whose main objection is that the facts place the case within the rule of Sachs v. Sachs, 3 V.I. 274, 155 F.Supp. 860 (D.C.V.I. 1957) affirmed on other grounds, 4 V.I. 102; 265 F.2d 31 (3rd Cir. 1959). The wife also argues “that plaintiff’s action herein is devoid of equity in that plaintiff comes into Court with unclean hands.”

It is true that where the incompatibility of temperament complained of is due to the wife’s conduct in objecting to the husband’s…