Sapp v. Sapp
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Shelby. Tried below before the Hon. James I. Perkins. This is an appeal from a judgment refusing a divorce from the wife at suit of appellant, the husband. The grounds relied on were that the wife had refused to take food prepared by him in her illness, fearing it was poisoned, and had left him to reside with her children. The testimony is given substantially in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
This is a suit for a divorce brought by the husband, who is appellant here, against the wife. The ground of the action was cruel treatment.
The plaintiff proved that he had been to his wife a kind and dutiful husband; but that while his wife was suffering from an attack of pleurisy, she refused to drink a cup of coffee, he had prepared for her at her request, until he had drank from the cup himself; and that she charged in substance, that he was attempting to take her life, and wished to poison her. One Mrs. Holden, who was a witness in the case, was present attending…
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