Grove's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a libel sur divorce by Mary Grove by her next friend James Haines, against Samuel Grove, which, after the usual averments of marriage, cohabitation, &c., charged the respondent with having, “ on the 15th of September 1856, turned libellant out of doors, and forbid her ever to enter his house and with having, at other times before that date, subjected her to degrading abuse in the presence of his family and strangers,…
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was a libel sur divorce by Mary Grove by her next friend James Haines, against Samuel Grove, which, after the usual averments of marriage, cohabitation, &c., charged the respondent with having, “ on the 15th of September 1856, turned libellant out of doors, and forbid her ever to enter his house and with having, at other times before that date, subjected her to degrading abuse in the presence of his family and strangers, with averments of personal abuse, &c., &c. To this an answer was filed, denying the material averments in the libel,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The libel of the complainant, as at first filed, averred that the respondent, on the 15th day of September 1856, turned her out of doors, and forbade her ever to enter his house. This was denied in the answer of the respondent, and upon the issue thus formed testimony was taken. That testimony proved that, if there was an actual turning the libellant out of doors, it was in January 1857, and not, as averred in the libel, on the 15th of September 1856. An amendment of the libellant’s petition was then allowed, by which it was made to aver…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- M'Dermott's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
3Cited by17 opinions
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- Rech v. RechSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
- White v. WhiteSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
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