Skinner v. Skinner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was a petition for divorce from the bond of matrimony. The pleadings, evidence, and the decree of the court below, are succinctly stated in the opinion of the court: made the following points: 1. “ Upon application for divorce, where both parties are found guilty of any of the enumerated offences for which a decree may be granted, the court should dismiss the bill.”
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This was a petition for divorce from the bond of matrimony. The pleadings, evidence, and the decree of the court below, are succinctly stated in the opinion of the court: made the following points: 1. “ Upon application for divorce, where both parties are found guilty of any of the enumerated offences for which a decree may be granted, the court should dismiss the bill.” Nagle vs. Nagle, 12 Missouri B. 53. “ In a suit brought by a husband against his wife for divorce on the ground of habitual drunkenness for more than two years, the wife may recriminate that he had been guilty of adultery;…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This is an application by Mrs. Skinner for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, on account of cruel and inhuman treatment by her husband. In her petition, after alleging that she has been a faithful and obedient wife, and has, on her part, kept and performed her marriage covenants, she charges her husband generally of using personal violence upon her, and specifies four instances of cruel and inhuman treatment, stating particularly the time and manner of the same. She likewise charges, that her husband has been ill-tempered and unkind ; has indulged in most abusive…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wood v. WoodNew York Court of Chancery · 1830
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