Humphress v. Humphress

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Affirming.

Appellant, Mary M. Humphress, who was the plaintiff below, obtained a divorce in the Nelson circuit court in October, 1924, on the ground of adultery. Thereafter she married Edward Humphress, and in December, 1928, she brought this action for a divorce from him on the ground of cruelty.

The chancellor refused her the divorce prayed, and dismissed her petition, on the theory that,' having obtained a divorce from her former husband, the granting to her of a divorce from her present husband on the ground relied on is forbidden by section 2118, Kentucky…