Richards v. Richards
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Court of Common Pleas of Qrawford county. This was an application by Mrs. Richards for a divorce a mensa et thoro and allowance of alimony. The parties were married on the 18th of April, 1850, and lived together till the 24th of April, 1854, when the wife left the husband’s habitation without his consent, taking with her their infant, about two months old.
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Error, to the Court of Common Pleas of Qrawford county. This was an application by Mrs. Richards for a divorce a mensa et thoro and allowance of alimony. The parties were married on the 18th of April, 1850, and lived together till the 24th of April, 1854, when the wife left the husband’s habitation without his consent, taking with her their infant, about two months old. During all this period, the deportment of the husband was kind and affectionate towards the wife, with the exception of a single act, the cause of the decree in this case. This act is the alleged pulling of her nose, which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
by Armstrong, J.
— This was a libel for divorce a mensa et thoro, and for alimony. The libel is lost, and cannot be found, but is alleged to be for cruel and barbarous treatment by the husband.
Our Act of Assembly provides that one of the causes for which a divorce may be granted is, when the husband shall, by cruel or barbarous treatment, endanger his wife’s life, or offer such indignities to her person as to render her condition intolerable and life burdensome, and thereby force her to withdraw from his house and family. The evidence supposed to bring the *391…
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