Heidrich v. Heidrich
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 279, Oct. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., June T., 1897, No. 14, dismissing exceptions to master’s report in case of Herman C. Heidrich v. Anna M. Heidrich. Libel for divorce. Exceptions to report of Alexander H. Scott, Esq., master. The ground for divorce alleged in the libel was adultery. The master found that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the libel.
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Appeal, No. 279, Oct. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., June T., 1897, No. 14, dismissing exceptions to master’s report in case of Herman C. Heidrich v. Anna M. Heidrich. Libel for divorce. Exceptions to report of Alexander H. Scott, Esq., master. The ground for divorce alleged in the libel was adultery. The master found that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the libel. The testimony tended to show that the respondent after she was turned out of the house by her husband boarded in two houses, the reputations of which were questionable. Error assigned was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
Upon the evidence on the part of the libellant, the master reported that no sufficient ground for a divorce had been shown. The court below overruled the libellant’s exceptions to the report, and dismissed the libel. A careful examination of the evidence has satisfied us that the matters in question were rightly determined below.
Besides the inadequacy of the evidence to establish the alleged acts of adultery, the circumstances in which the appellee was placed, by the conduct of her husband, may well be pleaded as a bar to the action. The act of March 13,1815, section 7,…
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