White v. White

McQUADE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment below granting Howard White (plaintiff-respondent and husband) a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty from Beverly White (defendant-appellant and wife).

A series of divorce actions preceded the one resulting in the judgment which is appealed here. Appellant filed the first divorce action involving this marriage in Pennsylvania in 1961, alleging that her husband had been beating her. She dismissed the action before it came to trial. Respondent filed the second action in 1963 in Pennsylvania, based on allegations of “indignities and cruel…