Newcome v. Light
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from. Grayson. Tried below before E. De Armand, Esq., special judge. Nancy J. Light and the appellee, D. W. Light, intermarried in Grayson county, Texas, about August 24,1854. They had five children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other four were still living.
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Appeal from. Grayson. Tried below before E. De Armand, Esq., special judge. Nancy J. Light and the appellee, D. W. Light, intermarried in Grayson county, Texas, about August 24,1854. They had five children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other four were still living. About January 12, 1867, the wife left the husband, and at the same time filed a suit against him in the Grayson district court for divorce, on the ground of cruel treatment, and for a division of the community property. Pending the suit alimony was allowed the wife. About August 4, 1869, the suit was dismissed by the wife.…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The constitutional provision invoked in this case reads as follows: “Ho judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be interested, or where either of the parties may be *144connected with him by affinity or consanguinity within such degree as may be prescribed by' law, or where he shall have been counsel-in the case.” Const. 1876, art. V. sec. 11; E. S., art. 1090.
The first suit for divorce was brought by Nancy J. Light, now deceased, against the appellee, D. W. Light, on the ground of cruel treatment. That suit was dismissed, and subsequently the second suit for divorce…
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