Hooper v. Hooper
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. 1. The facts shown in tbe petition entitle the plaintiff to a divorce. In Lewis v. Lewis, 5 Mo. Rep. 278, this court decided that the charge of infidelity was such a personal indignity as was contemplated by the statute. In Cheatham v. Cheatham, 10 Mo. Rep. 296, this decision was overruled. At the next session of the general assembly, (in 1849,) the law was changed.
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Appeal from Cass Circuit Court. 1. The facts shown in tbe petition entitle the plaintiff to a divorce. In Lewis v. Lewis, 5 Mo. Rep. 278, this court decided that the charge of infidelity was such a personal indignity as was contemplated by the statute. In Cheatham v. Cheatham, 10 Mo. Rep. 296, this decision was overruled. At the next session of the general assembly, (in 1849,) the law was changed. The words “ indignities to the other” were substituted for “ indignities to the person of the other.” The object of this change was to make the law what it was supposed to be in the case of Lewis v.…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
The plaintiff, Susan W. Hooper, filed her petition for a divorce and for alimony, alleging that her husband, a few months after their marriage, and when he was absent from her at his father’s residence, wrote a letter to her, in which he declared his determination never again to live with her, stating no other ground or reason for such determination, than that she did not suit him, and that he had been deceived in her, and that her improper manner toward his relations had occasioned him the loss of about a thousand dollars. The petition states also, that immediately after writing the letter,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cheatham v. CheathamSupreme Court of Missouri · 1847
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