Clawell v. Clawell
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 362, Oct. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, No. 3112, dismissing bill in equity in case of John G. Clawell v. Mary Anna Clawell. Libel for divorce. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was decree dismissing the libel.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, P. J.,
It is certainly unusual to ask a court of justice to enter a decree in favor of a plaintiff who is shown to have resorted to such practices as are substantially admitted in this record.
Each of the three witnesses, On whose testimony the master’s first report was based, when called at the second hearing before him, admitted that his former testimony was a deliberate lie, in regard to every incriminating fact, and further it was demonstrated, that they had been suborned tp so testify, through a detective operative employed by the plaintiff, who had furnished the.…
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