Lewis v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from the circuit court of St. Louis county. There is but one question in this cause, and that is,, whether the statute on divorces contemplates any other cruel treatment or indignities than such as arise from blows and cuffs? I contend that it does. That a continued and systematic course of cruelty arid insult, to produce a moral degradation of the wife, is as completely within 'the meaning of the statute as the infliction of personal abuse — see Revised Code, p. 225.
1Opinion of the CourtTompkins, Judge
The appellant, Mildred D. Lewis, filed her bill in the circuit courtj praying a divorce from the bonds of matrimony contracted with the defendant.
The bill states that the defendant, fourteen days after his intermarriage with her, commenced treating her with, and did offer her great- indignities, and from that time till he left the county of St.-Louis, (being about two months,), did offer such indignities to the person of the petitioner as did render her condition intolerable; that said Lewis, after a continued series of indignities offered to- her person, rendering her condition intolerable,…
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