Brooks v. Brooks

I cannot agree with the construction placed on the statute by the majority. The court holds, in effect, that no matter what the husband does, whip his wife, compel her to leave home, refuse to permit her to come hack for three years, he may get a divorce.

The statute itself provides in the seventh paragraph of the act, that the court shall grant an absolute decree of divorce at the suit of either party whether such separation was the voluntary act or by mutual consent of the parties.

It is true, as held by the majority, that the parties have lived separate and apart and without cohabitation for…