Cronise v. Cronise
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from Nisi Prius, in Equity. Titus F. Cronise was complainant in the bill, and Estella Cronise, late Dallett, and Henry O. Dallett, were defendants. The hearing was upon bill, answer, replication and proofs. Read, J., dismissed the bill, and the complainant appealed.
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This was an appeal from Nisi Prius, in Equity. Titus F. Cronise was complainant in the bill, and Estella Cronise, late Dallett, and Henry O. Dallett, were defendants. The hearing was upon bill, answer, replication and proofs. Read, J., dismissed the bill, and the complainant appealed. The bill set out that the complainant was, on the 29th of November 1860, married to Estella, one of the defendants ; that being unable to meet his business liabilities, in January 1861, with the consent and approval of his wife and her father, the other defendant, who assisted him with money to pay his passage,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
The argument in this case questioned the authority of the legislature to grant divorces. It is objected that the power is judicial and not within the legislative authority conferred in the first article of the state constitution — that being judicial it cannot be exercised without notice — and it is prohibited by the clause in the bill of rights, and that in the Federal Constitution forbidding contracts to be impaired.
If the power be conferred upon the legislature to grant divorces, it cannot be reasoned away by analysis. It is then a fact,…
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