Ozmore v. Ozmore
Supreme Court of Georgia
'Divorce. Alimony. Bill of Exceptions. Before Judge Harrell. Randolph Superior Court. November Term, 1869. Mrs. Ozmore’s libel for divorce, stripped of the verbosity usual in such pleadings, averred that they married on the 27th of August, 1857, lived happily, had children, (giving ages, etc.,) but he became “unkind, harsh and cruel in his general deportment to her, sought every opportunity to vex, harrass and render her life as wretched and miserable as he well could do; he…
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'Divorce. Alimony. Bill of Exceptions. Before Judge Harrell. Randolph Superior Court. November Term, 1869. Mrs. Ozmore’s libel for divorce, stripped of the verbosity usual in such pleadings, averred that they married on the 27th of August, 1857, lived happily, had children, (giving ages, etc.,) but he became “unkind, harsh and cruel in his general deportment to her, sought every opportunity to vex, harrass and render her life as wretched and miserable as he well could do; he has even resorted to acts of personal violence towards her;” “kicked her and knocked her down, wounding and bruising…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court—
BROWN, C. J.,
delivering the opinion.
This case was heard in this Court, upon the demurrer to the libel for divorce. The cause assigned is cruel treatment of the wife by the husband. While we are not disposed to encourage the dissolution of the marriage relation, for every indiscreet act, harsh expression, or unkind word, spoken by one of the parties to the other, we feel constrained to hold that the declaration sets forth sufficient cause in this case to sustain the action, under our statute, and to authorize a total or a partial divorce, in the discretion of the jury, if the…
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