Grove v. Grove
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. J. C. Lamson, Judge. It can scarcely be seriously contended that plaintiff has shown such “indignities as to render her condition intolerable” to the extent to entitle her to a divorce. “Indignities must be frequent and not isolated, and they must be of such a nature as to tend to the subversion of the family relation.” Webb v. Webb, 44 Mo.
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Appeal from the Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. J. C. Lamson, Judge. It can scarcely be seriously contended that plaintiff has shown such “indignities as to render her condition intolerable” to the extent to entitle her to a divorce. “Indignities must be frequent and not isolated, and they must be of such a nature as to tend to the subversion of the family relation.” Webb v. Webb, 44 Mo. App. 229. ' By this standard (if, perchance, she has shown any “indignities” whatever) the plaintiff has not made a case. “The wife is bound to follow the fortunes of the husband, and to live where he chooses…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
This is a suit for divorce, brought by tbe wife. In her petition she alleges sundry indignities. Tbe answer is a specific denial of tbe indignities charged and a cross-bill setting out counter-charges of indignities and the charge of abandonment without just cause or excuse of over five years duration. At tbe time of the marriage, July 23, 1891, tbe defendant was a widower, with two children by a former wife, a girl seventeen years of age and a boy much younger, age not given. For tbe first five or six weeks of tbe marriage, during tbe honeymoon, plaintiff and defendant seem to have agreed…
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