Scarborough v. Scarborough
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Greene Circuit Court, in Chancery. J. E. Riddick, Judge. Marriage is a status, and not a contract merely; a status in which the public have a vital interest; and a divorce will not be granted upon the testimony of a party, or the admissions in an answer, or the declarations of a defendant proven, as this contravenes the whole policy pf the law. 34 Ark., 37; 13 S. W. Rep., 246.
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
The appellee, the wife, sued for and obtained a decree of divorce from the appellant, her husband, from which he appealed to this court.
The appellee testified to cruel and barbarous personal abuse of herself by the appellant, calculated to render her condition intolerable, in consequence of which she fled from her home.
Barker, a witness, testified in substance, that appellant admitted to him that he had slapped appellee, and threatened to strike her with a board, and would have done so, but that he was prevented by his mother’s persuasion.
not be taken as true because of the defendant’s…
2Cited by15 opinions
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