Jeter v. Jeter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chambers. Heard before the Hon.. James B. Clark., The bill in ths case was filed, on the 26th November, 1858, by Mrs. Sarah Jeter, suing by her next friend, against her husband, Samuel Jeter; and sought a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. The defendant filed an answer, denying the charges of cruelty and- adultery, and demurring to the bill for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chambers. Heard before the Hon.. James B. Clark., The bill in ths case was filed, on the 26th November, 1858, by Mrs. Sarah Jeter, suing by her next friend, against her husband, Samuel Jeter; and sought a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. The defendant filed an answer, denying the charges of cruelty and- adultery, and demurring to the bill for want of equity. It appears that the parties were married on the 6th March, 1853; that on the 25th April, 1854, Mrs. Jeter gave birth to a son, the only child of the marriage; that the…
1Opinion of the CourtA. J. Walker, C. J.
The defendant in this case, after the lapse of a little more than one year from his intermarriage with a young lady in the freshness of early womanhood, utterly abandoned the nuptial bed, and subjected his wife to an almost total exclusion from social intercourse with him. This singular state of self-imposed conjugal estrangement, for which we can deduce from the testimony no justification, commenced at the very time when the birth of a child should have drawn him into a closer and more endearing union, and continued during a period of more than four years, and until a final separation…
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