Freeman v. Freeman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Vernon County. Action by a wife for a divorce, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. The defendant recriminates, charging the plaintiff with having committed the crime of adultery, at a house known as the Hosmer House, between the 1st of April and the 30th of June, 1863, with one Hill.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Vernon County. Action by a wife for a divorce, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. The defendant recriminates, charging the plaintiff with having committed the crime of adultery, at a house known as the Hosmer House, between the 1st of April and the 30th of June, 1863, with one Hill. The evidence for the plaintiff tended to prove that the defendant was habitually unkind in his treatment of her, and guilty of much ill usage, abusive language and violent threats, and of at least one act of personal violence towards her, causing her to go away and…
1Opinion of the Court
Dixow, C J.
"A bill for divorce upon a charge of adultery, should not,” says the chancellor, in Miller v. Miller, 20 N. J. Eq. R. (5 C. E. Green), 217, “ be filed upon general suspicion, nor until the discovery of some specific act, or of the facts from which such act must be inferred, and these should be sufficiently stated to identify the act upon which the suit is *239founded.” It is not objected tbat tbe adultery charged by tbe answer to bave been committed at tbe bouse known as tbe Hosmer House, in tbe village of Desoto, is not sufficiently stated to identify tbe act upon wbicb tbe defendant…
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