Holthoefer v. Holthoefer

The bill in this case is filed for a divorce-from the bonds of matrimony for the cause of extreme.cruelty. There are several specifications of cruel conduct,. *261"but there has been little attempt to sustain more than one. The one on which complainant relies is the communication ■to her of a venereal disease.

The evidence by complainant’s physician and nurse seems to put the fact beyond question that complainant was afflicted .•at one time with the disease. The question in dispute, ■therefore, is whether the disease was communicated to her "by the defendant; it being conceded that, if it was, a…