Beck v. Beck
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Victoria. Tried below before the Hon. H. Clay Pleasants. Wilhelmine Beck instituted this suit in May, 1883, and prayed a divorce be granted her on the ground of cruel treatment and other excesses on the part of her husband, Carl Beck. The latter answered, setting up that she had not conducted herself with propriety and treated him. with kindness and forbearance, and that she had on her part ill-treated him, and therefore he prayed for a divorce.
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Appeal from Victoria. Tried below before the Hon. H. Clay Pleasants. Wilhelmine Beck instituted this suit in May, 1883, and prayed a divorce be granted her on the ground of cruel treatment and other excesses on the part of her husband, Carl Beck. The latter answered, setting up that she had not conducted herself with propriety and treated him. with kindness and forbearance, and that she had on her part ill-treated him, and therefore he prayed for a divorce. The evidence showed a series of quarrels and altercations between the two, from September, 1877, to April, 1883, when they ceased to live…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
This is a suit for divorce brought by the appellant against the appellee, on the alleged ground of cruel treatment of such a character as to render their living together insupportable. The only evidence offered was on the part of the plaintiff and showed that the parties lived together very unhappily; that the husband sometimes used very insulting language towards his wife; and that they had frequent altercations, in some of which blows were exchanged between the parties. The principal witnesses were the children of the plaintiff by a former husband, and, to say the…
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