State v. Brown

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Marion County Superior Court, Room 5, granting a divorce to plaintiff, Ruben C. Brown. The complaint of Ruben C. Brown v. Cora M. Brown, his wife, was for absolute divorce on the ground of incurable insanity, predicated upon Clause 8 of Chapter 87 of the Acts of 1935 which declares incurable insanity to be a cause for divorce.

The prosecuting attmey of Marion County by his deputy appeared and resisted the action pursuant to Section 3-1212 Burns Indiana Statutes 1933, section 916 Baldwin’s 1934, which provides that “Whenever a petition for divorce…