Goodman v. Goodman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Audrain Circuit Court. — Hon. Elliott M. Hughes, Judge. The question is not whether this or that fact alone would render it the duty of the court to decree a divorce, but whether all the facts combined ought to lead to that result. Saunders v. Saunders, 1 Rob. Eccl. 549; Jones v. Jones, 60 Tex. 451; May v. May, 62 Pa.
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Appeal from the Audrain Circuit Court. — Hon. Elliott M. Hughes, Judge. The question is not whether this or that fact alone would render it the duty of the court to decree a divorce, but whether all the facts combined ought to lead to that result. Saunders v. Saunders, 1 Rob. Eccl. 549; Jones v. Jones, 60 Tex. 451; May v. May, 62 Pa. St. 206. Furthermore the evidence shows that appellant, against respondent’s objection, retained in her employ a Mrs. Roberts, as nurse and companion,’ a woman recently imported from a house of bad repute, and installed by Dr. Sombart in respondent’s family.…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, J.
The suit is for divorce brought by the husband against the wife. The gravemen of the charge is indignities offered by the wife to the husband; that these indignities were begun and kept up under the influence of John E. Sombart, brother of the wife. The specific allegations of indignities are as follows: “That the commencement of the aforesaid treatment and conduct of defendant toward the plaintiff rendering his condition intolerable consisted at first of inuendoes to the effect that plaintiff had been and was suffering with the vile disease of syphilis, then, insinuating that defendant had…
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