McClurg's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 64, to October and November Term 1869. On the 1st of April 1867, Margaret McClurg presented a libel for divorce against Alexander McClurg.
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Appeal from tbe decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 64, to October and November Term 1869. On the 1st of April 1867, Margaret McClurg presented a libel for divorce against Alexander McClurg. The libel set out the marriage of the parties on the 1st of July 1845, their cohabitation as man and wife until July 1st 1864, the desertion of the respondent from that time, and that before that date he had offered such indignities to the person of the libellant as to render her condition intolerable and her life burdensome. The prayer was for a divorce from bed and board and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1871, by
Agnew, J.
— In the year 1845, Alexander McClurg, an old man, a widower, and the father of a large grown-up family, married Margaret Caskey, a maid not young, yet of only half his years. The fruits of this ill-assorted match soon ripened, like Dead Sea apples, into ashes. Losses from unfortunate business connections, and crushing embarrassments, 'soured his temper and made him close and penurious. The means of .display withheld, and disappointed hopes, augmented by disagreements with his family, made. her unhappy and discontented.…
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