Wray v. Wray
Supreme Court of Alabama
ERROR to the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Tried1 before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne. This was a bill for a divorce by Albert G. Wray against his wife, Susan M. Wray, on the ground of adultery. The defendant in her answer denies the adultery.
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ERROR to the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Tried1 before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne. This was a bill for a divorce by Albert G. Wray against his wife, Susan M. Wray, on the ground of adultery. The defendant in her answer denies the adultery. She also states that in 1848 she was afflicted with mental derangement, and was totally unconscious, for a period of six months or more, of everything that transpired around her ; that since that time she has. had frequent attacks of the same malady, and has in fact enjoyed but few lucid intervals; and that while suffering under this derangement she is…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The time of the defendant’s adultery with Prime commenced, according to the evidence, in July, 1848, and continued for several months. The question of fact is, was she insane during the whole of that time"? There is so much evidence relative to this question, that a review of it is impossible within the limits of an opinion of the usual length. 1 shall consequently forbear comments upon the evidence in detail. Her case was certainly not one of monomania. But the difficulty of the question of fact has been increased by the various other diseases of body and mind under which she labored, at…
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