Legal Opinion

Basden v. Basden

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 17, 1923No. 8 Div. 518PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.

The wife in this case filed her bill for divorce, charging that defendant had committed actual violence on her person, attended with danger to life or health, or that from his conduct she had reason to apprehend such violence. Code, § 3795. Incidentally she aslts for the custody of her two children, and a division, or a sale for division, of the property accumulated by the joint efforts ‘of the pai'ties.

In agreement with the chancellor, we are not able to find in the record sufficient reason for a decree of divorce on the grounds laid out by the statute supra.

The question as to the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. AnonymousSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
  2. Cornelius v. CorneliusSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858
  3. Winslow v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
  4. Brinster v. ComptonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1880

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte State Ex Rel. TissierSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  2. Brown v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1934

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