Jones v. Jones
Ohio Supreme Court
Divorce. Cause, extreme cruelty. These parties lived together for several years after their marriage, and most of the time occupied separate beds. After some short time succeeding their taking separate beds, she sold her bed to obtain necessaries; then he sold his. The bedclothes were laid in separate heaps; he lay on one, and she the other. He proclaimed that when he wanted to have connection with her, she had to submit to it, or do worse.
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Divorce. Cause, extreme cruelty. These parties lived together for several years after their marriage, and most of the time occupied separate beds. After some short time succeeding their taking separate beds, she sold her bed to obtain necessaries; then he sold his. The bedclothes were laid in separate heaps; he lay on one, and she the other. He proclaimed that when he wanted to have connection with her, she had to submit to it, or do worse. About fourteen years ago, the parties separated by agreement; the wife and her three children were taken, by request of the husband, to her father’s, in…
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COURT.
Some part of the conduct of these parties is inexplicable; but it seems they ave not suited to live together, and all efforts to produce that result would be fruitless. His conduct has been highly exceptionable; her’s may not have been altogether free from blame. Both parties have been striving for a divorce. In leaving his wife and children without support, he is altogether unjustifiable, and the effort he has made to place his property beyond the reach of the law, ought not to avail him. It is ordered, that the parties be divorced from bed and board; that she have the 156]…
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