Jenkins v. Maier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Washington; Thomas Moore Burns, Judge. Action by Maud Jenkins against Eugene Maier. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Plaintiff sues her husband for divorce on the ground of excesses and cruel treatment of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable. The defendant is a day laborer, and the wife hires herself out as a cotton picker. The sum of the evidence adduced by plaintiff is that the parties quarreled several times, and that once, when they were throwing water on each other in play, the husband got mad and threw the dipper at her; also that he cursed her once, when she had provoked him. We think this evidence entirely insufficient to support the demand.
*131The husband reconvenes, and asks…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Joly v. WeberSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1883
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