Jones v. Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny eounty: Of October and November Term 1869, No. 177. Jerome Jones filed his libel in divorce against Mary L. Jones, in which he set forth that on the 31st of October 1865, he was married to Mary L. Sweeney, now Jones, the respondent, &c. * * “ That the said Mary Jones has, by cruel and barbarous treatment, rendered the condition of the libellant intolerable and life burdensome, having since the 22d February 1866…
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny eounty: Of October and November Term 1869, No. 177. Jerome Jones filed his libel in divorce against Mary L. Jones, in which he set forth that on the 31st of October 1865, he was married to Mary L. Sweeney, now Jones, the respondent, &c. * * “ That the said Mary Jones has, by cruel and barbarous treatment, rendered the condition of the libellant intolerable and life burdensome, having since the 22d February 1866 wholly refused and failed so to conduct and behave herself as to aid in any manner in living in harmony with the…
1Opinion of the Court
*496The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1871, by
Agnew, J.
— Marriage and the family relation lie at the very basis of social life, and the deep stake society has in their sanctity has led courts to be strict in the construction of the causes of divorce. The cruel and barbarous treatment which is a ground of divorce, a mensa et thoro, under the Act of 1817, has been held to be actual personal violence to the wife, or the reasonable apprehension of it; or such a course of treatment as endangers her life or health, and renders cohabitation unsafe: Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas.…
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