Cline v. Cline

GRAVES, Justice.

This suit for dissolution of the marriage and settlement of the property rights between the husband and wife constituted strictly “a case of divorce,” as was characterized by the Supreme Court of Texas in Lloyd v. Bonds, 147 Tex. 523, 217 S.W.2d 1000, at page 1001, column 1.

Not only so, but as such divorce suit, in its controlling objectives as matter of pleading, it paralleled the similar divorce suit of Howell v. Howell, 147 Tex. 14, 210 S.W.2d 978 — that is, it was filed by the husband against the wife upon the sole ground of such cruel treatment upon her part as rendered…