Lasier v. Lasier
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing- on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an equity court, in a suit by a wife for separate maintenance of herself and child. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Isabel C. Lasier brought action under the statute against her husband for separate maintenance for herself and their minor child.
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Hearing- on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an equity court, in a suit by a wife for separate maintenance of herself and child. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Isabel C. Lasier brought action under the statute against her husband for separate maintenance for herself and their minor child. A trial was had resulting in a decree entered on the 17th day of December, 1915, “that the prayers of the petition for separate maintenance, and for the support of the infant child, Jean Lasier, be and the same hereby…
1Opinion of the Court
Per • Curtam :
Is1 the'corrected decree such as should have, been entered under the testimony? This presents a question of fact only; questions of law are not involved. Forty-five witnesses were examined. To analyze their testimony and state the result would require pages without serving any useful purpose. It discloses that there was some fault on each side, but the preponderance of fault was on the part of the defendant ;• yet it. seems to us that, if both had shown a little more forbearance,— a desire to give and take in small matters, — they would have averted the disaster which…
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