Legal Opinion

Moses v. Moses

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 14, 1921No. Appeal, No. 293PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 293, Oct. T., 1920, by libellant, from judgment of C. P. Lehigh County, Jan. T., 1920, No. 162, refusing a divorce in the case of Jacob M. Moses v. Marjorie May Moses. Libel in divorce. Before Henninger, J. The case was referred to Morris Hoats, Esq., as master, who recommended that a divorce be granted. Subsequently, on exceptions to the master’s report, the court sustained the exceptions and dismissed the libel. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The appellant seeks a divorce upon the ground of willful and malicious desertion. The court below after careful consideration of the evidence found that it did not sustain the allegation of the libellant and entered a decree dismissing the libel. We have given to the testimony in this case the careful consideration required by the nature of the proceeding, and are not convinced that the judgment of the court below was erroneous. The testimony of the libellant is the only evidence in the case which directly tends to support the allegation of the libel, but his own…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hexamer v. HexamerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1910

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Maus v. MausSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
  2. Huston v. Huston, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Montgomery County1926
  3. Lubic v. LubicSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  4. Barnes v. Barnes, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Cumberland County1934

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