Miller v. Miller

Markell, J.,

filed the following dissenting opinion:

As is apparent, and was stated at the argument by the husband’s counsel, this was a “forced marriage.” The baby was not the result, but the cause, of the marriage. Affection, if any, between husband and wife, soon cooled in the drab life in Tennessee, in cramped quarters, with a sickly baby, without money and without marked ability or industry on the husband’s part. He has a more than Adamlike propensity for blaming on his wife not only his shortcomings but also his misfortunes and even his statements in letters to her. He says the baby was…