Odom v. Odom
Supreme Court of Georgia
Divorce. Alimony. Sayings of wife. Tried before Judge Cole. Macon Superior Court, March Term, 1867. Harriet Caldwell, widow, married James S. Odom, widower, 26th January, 1860. They quarreled, and finally separated 4th October, 1865, and she sued for a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii. ’ The libel charged that he had treated he. cruelly, by failing to furnish her proper clothing and the necessaries of life, by threatening to whip and shoot her, and by violently assaulting and…
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Divorce. Alimony. Sayings of wife. Tried before Judge Cole. Macon Superior Court, March Term, 1867. Harriet Caldwell, widow, married James S. Odom, widower, 26th January, 1860. They quarreled, and finally separated 4th October, 1865, and she sued for a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii. ’ The libel charged that he had treated he. cruelly, by failing to furnish her proper clothing and the necessaries of life, by threatening to whip and shoot her, and by violently assaulting and beating her, first on the 8th February, 1865, and again (after she had left him and returned,) on the 11th August, 1865;…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, C. J.
The error assigned in this case is the refusal of the Court below to grant a new trial upon the several grounds specified in the motion therefor.
1. Because the Court erred in admitting the declarations of plaintiff when about to leave her husband’s house, in his absence, as testified to by Alice Haugabook, Josephine Haugabook, Mary T. Spivey, and Anna V. Spivey. It appears from the record, that when the plaintiff left the house of defendant, she took with her certain articles of furniture, and that the two sons of the defendant were present when she left, but the defendant himself was absent.…
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