Bracken v. Bracken
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 102, April T., 1921, by libellant, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1920, No. 998, dismissing libel in divorce in the case of Robert C. Bracken v. Myra G. Bracken. Libel in divorce. Before Reid, J. The case was referred to R. P. Lewis, Esq., as master, who recommended that a divorce be granted.- Subsequently the court overruled the recommendation of the master and refused to grant a divorce. Libellant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 102, April T., 1921, by libellant, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1920, No. 998, dismissing libel in divorce in the case of Robert C. Bracken v. Myra G. Bracken. Libel in divorce. Before Reid, J. The case was referred to R. P. Lewis, Esq., as master, who recommended that a divorce be granted.- Subsequently the court overruled the recommendation of the master and refused to grant a divorce. Libellant appealed. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The parties to this action for divorce were married in July, 1916. Each one of them was then about the age of sixteen years. It was a runaway marriage. Both of them lived in the City of McKeesport and, after their marriage in Cumberland, returned to that city and took up their home with the parents of the libellant husband. In February, 1920, the libel in this case was filed by the husband peeking a divorce on the ground of wilful and malicious desertion which, as he declares, had been continuous since March, 1917. He testifies that when he returned from work on a day in…
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