Beaver v. Beaver

BROSKY, Judge:

This appeal follows the granting of a divorce to appellee, husband. The action was brought pursuant to the 1929 Divorce Law 1 and was based on appellee’s allegations that his wife subjected him to indignities that rendered his condition intolerable and life burdensome. On appeal, Mrs. Beaver contends that her husband sustained neither his burden of proving that she had subjected him to indignities, nor his burden of showing that he was the injured and innocent spouse. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

Initially, we must examine what is our scope of review. In Schrock v.…