Hanna v. Hanna

KEY, Associate Justice.

This is a divorce suit. The questions to be decided arise upon the ruling of the court upon the admissibility of certain testimony, and its action in giving certain instructions to the jury.

The main ground for a divorce relied on by appellee in her petition was, that appellant had communicated to her a loathsome venereal disease.

Article 2863 of the Revised Statutes of this State provides, that in all divorce suits the defendant shall not be compelled to answer upon oath, nor shall the petition be taken for confessed for want of an answer; but the decree of the court…