Levering v. Levering
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity side of the Superior Court of .Baltimore city. Petition for a divorce a vinculo, filed on the 14th of May 1857, by the appellee against the appellant.
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Appeal from the Equity side of the Superior Court of .Baltimore city. Petition for a divorce a vinculo, filed on the 14th of May 1857, by the appellee against the appellant. The petition states that the parties were married on the 5th of February 1850, and avers that, within a few months thereafter, the defendant became very dissipated in his habits, and unkind and cruel in his treatment of the petitioner; that she bore and submitted to this ill-treatment, and, by every effort which an affectionate wife could make, endeavored to reclaim him and* induce him to abandon his evil habits; that her…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
There is no inore painful and delicate duty devolved on a court of justice, than that of pronouncing upon the causes which justify a severance of the marriage relation. Public policy and public morals, alike, require that a relation so intimate and tender should nor be broken for slight or trivial causes, and impose on us the duty of carefully weighing and considering the grounds upon which we are called on to affirm a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony, between parties who respectively claim and resist the exercise of the power conferred on us by law.
*218The Act of Assembly of 1841, ch.…
2Cited by26 opinions
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