Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MILLER vs. MILLER Divorce.?Indignities to the husband an ground for divorce.?Cruel and barbarous treatment. To make either cruelty and barbarous treatment, or, indignities to the person of libellant a ground entitling a husband to obtain a divorce from his wife, the conduct complained of in the libel must also be therein alleged to be productive of a certain effect on the sensibilities of the complaining libellant viz: it must have rendered his condition intolerable or life burdensome, but it need not be alleged in the libel or proved In the evidence to have been also productive of another effect on libellant, viz: compelling of his abandonment of his house and family, to will h latter words the statute has ascribed no significance whatever when the husband is libellant. Where the occurrence disclosed by t he evidence in a case where a divorce is sought by the husband for indignities to his person are too trivial, too negative in character and too feebly s; pported by convincing evidence to warrant the conclusion that within th sense of the Act of Assembly in such a case, the libellant was offered such indignities to his person as to render his condition intolerable and life burdensome, a divorce will be refused. In the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County, No. 415 Aug. Term, 1920. Divorce. Louis Claster, for libellant. McConnell, P. J.: The plaintiff seeks an absolute decree of divorce from the defendant, on the following grounds, ? as he has them set out in his libel: That the said Ella C. Miller, from on, or about, the 15th day of October, 1913, to the llth day of September, 1917, constantly, and, on days too numerous to mention, did offer such indignities to the person of him, said libellant, as to render his condition intolerable, and life burdensome, a..