Jacobs v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for a divorce upon the alleged ground of intolerable cruelty, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee who heard the evidence and reported the facts; to the acceptance of the committee's report the defendant filed a remonstrance, and later an amended remonstrance, each of which was overruled (Haines and Keeler, Js.) and judgment was afterward rendered {Keeler, J.) for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed.
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Action for a divorce upon the alleged ground of intolerable cruelty, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee who heard the evidence and reported the facts; to the acceptance of the committee's report the defendant filed a remonstrance, and later an amended remonstrance, each of which was overruled (Haines and Keeler, Js.) and judgment was afterward rendered {Keeler, J.) for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed. The complaint, in the usual form, claimed a divorce on the ground of intolerable cruelty, and issue was joined thereon. There was also…
1Opinion of the CourtCase, J.
The record presents two questions for our consideration. Upon the first of them, we think the trial court correctly held that the finding of intolerable cruelty on the part of the defendant was warranted by the evidence before the committee. Cruelty includes any wilful act of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain.- Webster’s Diet., Verb. So persisted in as to become “intolerable and to render a continuance of the (marriage) relation by the suffering victim impracticable,” it grows into a ground for divorce. Morehouse v. Morehouse, 70 Conn. 420, 427, 39 Atl. 516. The test of its…
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