Edmond's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the .decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 181, to January Term 1868. In the court below this was a libel for divorce, filed December 18th 1858, in which Philadelphia S. J. Edmond was the libellant, and her husband, John Edmond, respondent. There was no service of notice of the proceedings on the respondent until after the decree.
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Appeal from the .decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 181, to January Term 1868. In the court below this was a libel for divorce, filed December 18th 1858, in which Philadelphia S. J. Edmond was the libellant, and her husband, John Edmond, respondent. There was no service of notice of the proceedings on the respondent until after the decree. The libel set out the marriage of the parties in April 1846; their living together as man and wife until November Í848; and that the respondent had “ offered such indignities to the person of the petitioner as to render her condition…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
In the court below this was a libel for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, in which the divorce prayed for was decreed. The ground as set forth in the libel was, that the appellant had offered such indignities to the person of the appellee as to render her condition intolerable and her life burdensome, and thereby forced her to withdraw from his house and company. The trial was ex parte, the appellant not having been actually summoned, and having been at the time resident in a foreign country. The witnesses by whom the alleged indignities were…
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