Citation Numbers: 122 A. 100, 99 Conn. 427
Judges: BEACH, J.
Filed Date: 7/27/1923
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
In Morehouse v. Morehouse,
In view of the plaintiff's claim that the Sweet case is authority for the proposition that any conduct of the defendant which results in impairment of the plaintiff's health is intolerable cruelty, we deem it advisable to repudiate that suggestion, and to point out that intolerable cruelty is and always was a specific ground of divorce entirely distinct from that covered by the repealed "misconduct" clause, with which it was formerly associated in the statute. As we said in theMorehouse case: "When our legislature, in 1843, adopted as grounds of divorce a vinculo, `habitual intemperance' and `intolerable cruelty,' it used these words with their ordinary meaning, but with special reference to what has been since 1639 our settled policy in respect to divorce; i. e., marriage is a life status and should never be dissolved, unless one of the parties is guilty of conduct which in itself is a practical annulling and repudiation of the marriage covenant."
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.
Sweet v. Sweet , 97 Conn. 693 ( 1922 )
Mayhew v. Mayhew , 61 Conn. 233 ( 1891 )
Richards v. Richards , 153 Conn. 407 ( 1966 )
Murphy v. Murphy , 112 Conn. 417 ( 1930 )
Beck v. Beck , 102 Conn. 755 ( 1925 )
Kinsley v. Kinsley , 110 Conn. 695 ( 1929 )
O'Brien v. O'Brien , 101 Conn. 80 ( 1924 )
Mercer v. Mercer , 131 Conn. 352 ( 1944 )
Wall v. Wall , 9 Conn. Supp. 192 ( 1941 )
Fraher v. Fraher , 4 Conn. Supp. 496 ( 1937 )
Sarafin v. Sarafin , 28 Conn. Super. Ct. 24 ( 1968 )
Bettigole v. Bettigole , 11 Conn. Supp. 15 ( 1942 )
Craigo v. Craigo , 8 Conn. Supp. 479 ( 1940 )
Vanguilder v. Vanguilder , 100 Conn. 1 ( 1923 )
Swist v. Swist , 107 Conn. 484 ( 1928 )
Purcell v. Purcell , 101 Conn. 422 ( 1924 )
Campbell v. Campbell , 110 Conn. 277 ( 1929 )
Morris v. Morris , 132 Conn. 188 ( 1945 )
Gannon v. Gannon , 130 Conn. 449 ( 1943 )
State v. Lugg , 144 Conn. 21 ( 1956 )
Mockevicz v. Mockevicz , 9 Conn. Supp. 91 ( 1941 )