Legal Opinion

Hoshall v. Hoshall

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 25, 1879PublishedCited by 10 opinions

. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in ¿quity. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the CourtBartol, C. J.

A careful examination of the evidence in this case has brought us to the same conclusion reached by the Judge of the Circuit Court, and so well expressed in his opinion contained in the record.

The only ground upon which the claim of the appellant to a divorce seems to rest with any degree of plausibility, is the alleged “ cruelty of treatment ” by her husband; but in our judgment the testimony fails to make out a case of cruelty of treatment, such as is contemplated by the Act of Assembly (1872, ch. 272,) as this has been uniformly understood and defined by the Courts.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Thayer v. LittlejohnSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1841

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Phinizy v. PhinizySupreme Court of Georgia · 1922
  2. Scheinin v. ScheininCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1952
  3. Hastings v. HastingsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1925
  4. Wolfe v. WolfeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1938
  5. de Coito v. de CoitoHawaii Supreme Court · 1912

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