Schierstein v. Schierstein
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. John M. Wood, Judge. It was the husband’s duty to protect,and defend the good name of his wife, and he was so far as came to his knowledge responsible for the acts and language of his relatives which he did not try to prevent. Brown on Div. [1 Ed.], 138; Albee t>. Albee, 31 N. E. Rep. (111.) 153; Olcott v. Olcott, 25 Atl. Rep. (N. J.) 469; Lay v. Lay, 50 N. W. Rep. (Iowa) 979; Hutchins v. Hutchins, 24 8. E. Rep.
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Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. John M. Wood, Judge. It was the husband’s duty to protect,and defend the good name of his wife, and he was so far as came to his knowledge responsible for the acts and language of his relatives which he did not try to prevent. Brown on Div. [1 Ed.], 138; Albee t>. Albee, 31 N. E. Rep. (111.) 153; Olcott v. Olcott, 25 Atl. Rep. (N. J.) 469; Lay v. Lay, 50 N. W. Rep. (Iowa) 979; Hutchins v. Hutchins, 24 8. E. Rep. (Va.) 903. The fact that plaintiff made complaint to her husband of the language and actions of his mother ought to have been…
1Opinion of the CourtBiggs, J.
The parties to this suit were married on June 8, 1894, and separated January 15, 1896. Immediately after their marriage they took up their abode with the defendant’s family, which consisted of his father and mother and two married sisters. They boarded until the summer of 1895, when they rented two rooms in the second story of the house, furnished them and began housekeeping. The plaintiff sues for divorce. One of the alleged grounds is that on divers occasions during the time plaintiff lived with defendant his mother and sisters offered her many indignities, which rendered her condition…
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