Shores v. Shores

Rat, Ch. J.

This was an action for, divorce. The causes assigned were, that appellant, who filed the petition, had been compelled by the abuse and ill-treatment of the appellee to abandon him; that said appellee has, during the existence of the marriage relation, endeavored to destroy her chai’acter for chastity with her neighbors, by falsely charging her with improper intimacy with other men, when he well knew the charges to be false.

The issues raised by the pleadings were submitted to a jury, and the special findings show the following facts: the appellee had thrown the appellant upon the…