Legal Opinion

Kiser v. Kiser

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 19, 1908PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Dickenson county. Decree for the defendant. Complainant appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

A. J. Kiser filed his hill asking for a divorce from his wife, upon the ground that she had been guilty of adultery, was grossly negligent of her duties as a wife, and insufferably abusive toward him, provoking him beyond measure with her insulting language, and finally culminating in her abandonment of him.

The answer of the wife denies each of these allegations, avers that the defendant had been a faithful wife, had labored to rear her children and to make her home happy and comfortable; that her husband had abandoned and left her without any…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Almond v. AlmondCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1827

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Heflin v. HeflinSupreme Court of Virginia · 1941
  2. Lovegrove v. LovegroveSupreme Court of Virginia · 1920
  3. Clinchfield Coal Co. v. SutherlandSupreme Court of Virginia · 1912

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