Wray v. Wray
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed by Mrs. Susan M. Wray, suing by her next friend, against her husband, Albert G. Wray,, and sought a decree for alimony. The parties to the suit are the same as to the ease reported in 19 Ala. 522, which was an application by Mr. Wray for a divorce, on the ground of adultery committed by his wife.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed by Mrs. Susan M. Wray, suing by her next friend, against her husband, Albert G. Wray,, and sought a decree for alimony. The parties to the suit are the same as to the ease reported in 19 Ala. 522, which was an application by Mr. Wray for a divorce, on the ground of adultery committed by his wife. That application was refused, although the fact of adultery was proved, because it appeared that the wife was insane at the time of its commission ; the court holding, that adultery on the part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
In a contest between these parties, determined in this court at the June term, 1851, on an application by Mr. Wray for divorce, this court decided that Mrs. Susan M. Wray was insane at the time the acts were *190committed, for which the divorce was sought.—See Wray v. Wray, 19 Ala. 522. The report of that ease was in evidence in this case, as shown by the record.
The proof of her mental condition since that time is probably sufficient to show that, at no time since her deflection from the path of propriety, has she been either legally or morally accountable. We need not, however,, decide this…
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