Milne v. Milne

I agree with the majority opinion that the wife’s allegation of adultery against the husband was not such an indignity against the husband as to constitute a ground for divorce. He admitted adultery. I must, however, dissent to the majority’s rationale and interpretation of the caselaw of Arkansas. The majority holds the chancellor properly could consider the husband’s adultery as a basis for his decree in favor of the wife.

Arkansas long has been in the forefront of those states encouraging — and even making compulsory — the inclusion in one lawsuit of all matters which might conveniently be…