Brown v. Brown
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Sharp Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. R. H. Powell, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. Ida Brown filed in the Sharp county Circuit Court, at the August term, 1880, her complaint in equhy against her husband, James Brown, for divorce, alleging as causes therefor, that “for a period of more than one year last past he had commenced and pursued a course of unkind, harsh and tyrannical treatment towards her; that he treated her with uniform unkindness and great harshness,…
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APPEAL from Sharp Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. R. H. Powell, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. Ida Brown filed in the Sharp county Circuit Court, at the August term, 1880, her complaint in equhy against her husband, James Brown, for divorce, alleging as causes therefor, that “for a period of more than one year last past he had commenced and pursued a course of unkind, harsh and tyrannical treatment towards her; that he treated her with uniform unkindness and great harshness, which continued with little intermission until their separation. That he fre•quently used opprobrious epithets and language…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The plaintiff, in her complaint, charged the defendant with habitual drunkenness for one year before the commencement of this suit, and with having offered to her person such indignities as render her condition intolerable. She also charged him with cruel and barbarous treatment, but no particular acts of cruelty or barbarity were stated, nor was it alleged to have been such as to endanger her life, and no proof of cruel or barbarous treatment was offered.
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The indignities of which she complained should have been specifically set out, that it might have been seen…
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