Scott v. Scott
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Orange. Tried below before the Hon. W. II. Ford. The suit was by the husband, L. C. E. Scott. The character of the petition, a demurrer to which was overruled, is sufficiently indicated by the opinion. Though there was much evidence on both sides showing that neither of the parties was very amiable, there was no pretense that the virtue of either was brought in question by the other, or that any violence had been used by, or was apprehended from, either.
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Appeal from Orange. Tried below before the Hon. W. II. Ford. The suit was by the husband, L. C. E. Scott. The character of the petition, a demurrer to which was overruled, is sufficiently indicated by the opinion. Though there was much evidence on both sides showing that neither of the parties was very amiable, there was no pretense that the virtue of either was brought in question by the other, or that any violence had been used by, or was apprehended from, either. The answer of the wife set up the fact that the plaintiff had failed and refused to support her for nearly two years before the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.—
This action was brought by the husband to obtain a divorce from his wife for cruelties, excesses and ill-treatment, which he alleged rendered their living together insupportable. A general demurrer, which brought into question the sufficiency of the allegations of the petition to entitle the plaintiff to a divorce, was overruled by the court below, and this, among other rulings, is assigned as an error for which the judgment should be reversed.
Without going into a detail of the acts of cruelty alleged, it is-sufficient to say that they do not in our opinion make out a…
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