Mack v. Handy
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. JTX Houston, J. 1. Where a plaintiff, in a suit for divorce, declares upon a double set of allegations, the first of which sets, if proved, would entitle her to a divorce, and the other (without the first) would entitle her to a separation from hod and hoard, prays for an absolute divorce, “ and for all such other and farther relief and decrees in the premises as to law, justice, right and equity will comport,…
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A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. JTX Houston, J. 1. Where a plaintiff, in a suit for divorce, declares upon a double set of allegations, the first of which sets, if proved, would entitle her to a divorce, and the other (without the first) would entitle her to a separation from hod and hoard, prays for an absolute divorce, “ and for all such other and farther relief and decrees in the premises as to law, justice, right and equity will comport, and the nature of the case and the evidence will authorize, and for general relief,” the court can grant either an…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Plaintiff sues her husband to obtain against him judgment of divorce, and in the alternative a separation from bed and board.
Her petition is elaborate, and the charges and specifications are quite numerous.
They are to the effect that for several years past defendant has been guilty of “habitual intemperance” and “excesses, cruel treatment and outrages towards her; that he has cursed, abused and insulted her without cause, in public and private; and that such habitual intemperance, ill-treatment and excesses are of such a nature as to render…
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