Bahn v. Bahn
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. On March 3, 1883, appellee sued for a divorce and to secure a division and partition of property. Among other grounds alleged for divorce was that appellant had said that appellee was a prostitute. The pleadings of the parties were voluminous. On August 2, 1883, the cause was tried without a jury, and as stated in the judgment the court found as follows: “1st. The parties were married. 2d.
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. On March 3, 1883, appellee sued for a divorce and to secure a division and partition of property. Among other grounds alleged for divorce was that appellant had said that appellee was a prostitute. The pleadings of the parties were voluminous. On August 2, 1883, the cause was tried without a jury, and as stated in the judgment the court found as follows: “1st. The parties were married. 2d. In February, 1883, at the time specified in the petition, the defendant, speaking to his daughter Amelia, called the plaintiff a whore (using…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
Our statute makes excesses, cruel treatment or outrages by the husband toward the wife or the wife toward the husband good ground for divorce, provided these are of such nature as to render longer living together in the marital relation insupportable.
In Jones v. Jones, 60 Tex., 460, Chief Justice Willie correctly remarked that “In some of the states it is not ordinarily deemed sufficient cause for divorce that the husband should have accused his wife of unchastity, but as an act of gross cruelty almost enough of itself for that purpose. Our courts, under the peculiar…
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