Beebe v. Beebe
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. Divorce. The bill is by the husband, and is substantially as follows: The parties were married in 1831. It it alleged that a few years after the marriage respondent became overbearing in her manner to petitioner and treated him unkindly ; that for the last few years she has shamefully treated him by beating and bruising him without any good cause; that within twelve months preceding the filing of the petition she has at divers times…
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Appeal from Dubuque District Court. Divorce. The bill is by the husband, and is substantially as follows: The parties were married in 1831. It it alleged that a few years after the marriage respondent became overbearing in her manner to petitioner and treated him unkindly ; that for the last few years she has shamefully treated him by beating and bruising him without any good cause; that within twelve months preceding the filing of the petition she has at divers times declared that it would be right and proper for her to put poison into petitioner’s victuals ; that she has often said she…
1Opinion of the CourtWRIG-ht, C. J.
It is provided by tbe 7th clause of section 1482 of tbe Code, that divorces from tbe bonds of matrimony may be decreed against tbe husband, “when be is guilty of such inhuman treatment as to endanger tbe life of bis wife.” And then section 1483, enacts that a husband may *135obtain a divorce from the wife for a like cause. The question in this case is, whether taking the bill as true, complainant is entitled to a divorce, under this provision of the Code, or in other words whether he shows such inhuman treatment as endangers his life.
As a specific cause of divorce this clause is the definition of…
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