Clark v. Clark
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Harrison Circuit Court. — Eon. G-. W. yVannamalcer, Judge. (1) The separation agreement was a bar to the action for divorce. Simpson v. Simpson, 31 M'o. 24; Dwyer v. Dwyer, 16 Mo. App. 422. The evidence did not establish Indignities within the meaning of the statute. (2) All of it amounted simply to the wrangling due to lack of conciliatory temper of both parties. It was not an indignity. Holschbach v. Holschbach, 134 Mo. App. 257; Webb v. Webb, 44 Mo.
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Appeal from Harrison Circuit Court. — Eon. G-. W. yVannamalcer, Judge. (1) The separation agreement was a bar to the action for divorce. Simpson v. Simpson, 31 M'o. 24; Dwyer v. Dwyer, 16 Mo. App. 422. The evidence did not establish Indignities within the meaning of the statute. (2) All of it amounted simply to the wrangling due to lack of conciliatory temper of both parties. It was not an indignity. Holschbach v. Holschbach, 134 Mo. App. 257; Webb v. Webb, 44 Mo. App. 229; Griesedieck v. Griesedieck, 56 Mo. App. 94. (3) An indignity to be intolerable in the statutory sense, must amount to a…
1Opinion of the CourtBroaddus, P. J.
This is a suit for divorce. The plaintiff bases his right to a divorce on the ground of indignities. They are substantially as' follows: That immediately after his marriage to defendant she commenced a tirade of abuse against plaintiff, calling him mean names, and kept up a system of quarreling to such an extent that it become unbearable; “and would often call the‘plaintiff an ‘old 'devil,’ and it was a very common thing for her to say she hated him worse than the devil himself.” That within about a week or ten days after plaintiff and defendant, were married she commenced to nag at plaintiff…
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- Simpson v. SimpsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1860
- Lemmert v. LemmertCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1906
- Gilmer v. GilmerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1889
- Stokes v. StokesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1823
- Webb v. WebbMissouri Court of Appeals · 1891
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