Cantor v. Cantor
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 12, March T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1915, No. 690, refusing divorce in case of Aaron S. Cantor v. Esther Cantor. Libel for divorce. Newcomb, J., filed the following opinion: This woman is probably an adulteress. She is suffering the consequences of a loathsome venereal disease for which she has confessedly been under protracted treatment by specialists in Philadelphia.
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Appeal, No. 12, March T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1915, No. 690, refusing divorce in case of Aaron S. Cantor v. Esther Cantor. Libel for divorce. Newcomb, J., filed the following opinion: This woman is probably an adulteress. She is suffering the consequences of a loathsome venereal disease for which she has confessedly been under protracted treatment by specialists in Philadelphia. There is neither allegation nor attempt to show that it was communicated to her by the husband. On the contrary, the uncontested proofs give him a clean bill of health at…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, P. J.,
The only question involved in this appeal is one of law, and is not controlled by the finding of fact by the court below that the wife had the disease suggested by the witnesses, as there is no proof adduced to clearly indicate whether the alleged condition of health is inherited or acquired, before or subsequent to her marriage.
*110She emphatically denies all knowledge of its existence, and offers evidence which ordinarily is accepted as conclusive of the nonexistence of such a disease, there being no proof of any primary or secondary symptoms of such a malady.
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