Veler v. Veler

OPINION

By OVERMYER, J.

Julia Veler filed a petition in Common Pleas Court on May 25, 1934, against Fred Veler, praying for divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. Later an amended petition was filed. The defendant answered and also filed a cross-petition charging the plaintiff with unchaste and immoral conduct, and with acts of extreme cruelty.

On these pleadings the case came on for hearing before the court, and after a full hearing the court found that the defendant was guilty of extreme cruelty toward the plaintiff, but that such acts of cruelty were provoked by the misconduct of the…