Stoeser v. Stoeser
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 230, Oct. T., 1919, by libellant, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Philadelphia County, September Term, 1918, No. 192, refusing a divorce in the case of Edward J. Stoeser v. Emilie Pauline Stoeser. Libel in divorce. Before McMichael, P. J. The case was referred to Thomas Bidgway, Esq., as master, who recommended that the libel be dismissed. On exceptions to the master’s report the court overruled the exceptions and dismissed the libel. Libellant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 230, Oct. T., 1919, by libellant, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Philadelphia County, September Term, 1918, No. 192, refusing a divorce in the case of Edward J. Stoeser v. Emilie Pauline Stoeser. Libel in divorce. Before McMichael, P. J. The case was referred to Thomas Bidgway, Esq., as master, who recommended that the libel be dismissed. On exceptions to the master’s report the court overruled the exceptions and dismissed the libel. Libellant appealed. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The libel in this case alleges as a ground for divorce, cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities to the person rendering the condition of the husband intolerable and his life burdensome. The record presents nearly 400 pages of printed testimony, and after a careful examination by the master he concluded, that many of the witnesses who were called threw no light on the situation, and bases his findings of fact upon the testimony of the parties themselves and their son. The parties had lived together for over seventeen years in apparent amity before this action was commenced.…
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