Reighter v. Reighter
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 37, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1911, No. 2,445, for libelant in case of David •Henry Reighter v. Elizabeth H. Reighter. ■ Libel for divorce on the ground of adultery. Before Audenried, J. Error assigned was the decree awarding divorce.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
The testimony of the co-respondent certainly justifies the inference that the respondent and he were criminally intimate. We would hesitate to found a decree upon his testimony alone, but coupled with the letters which the respondent admits she wrote to him, addressed to him as husband, signed by her- as wife, containing terms of endearment, regret for his absence and indelicate allusions entirely inconsistent with platonic relations, and considering the frequent opportunities they had of companionship and the evident enjoyment they had in each other’s society, leads us…
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- Gruninger v. GruningerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
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