Legal Opinion
Oliver v. Oliver
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided April 8, 1943No. 4 Div. 271PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Chief Justice.
The bill was by the wife against the husband seeking divorce on the ground of cruelty and containing averments in compliance with the statute. Title 34, § 22, Code of 1940; Sams v. Sams, 242 Ala. 240, 5 So.2d 774; Ratcliff v. Ratcliff, 209 Ala. 377, 96 So. 422.
Complainant offered testimony of herself and two witnesses in substantiation of the cruelty charge, disclosing actual violence by the husband upon the person of the wife attended with danger to her life or health. Authorities supra. It is clear the proof justified the decree of divorce, and this is not questioned…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Royster v. LederleCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1942
- Sams v. SamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
- Ratcliff v. RatcliffSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
- Combs v. . CombsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1920
- Bolz Cooperage Corp. v. BeardsleeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1922
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