19 Mo. 351 | Mo. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case, the' petitioner seeks a divorce from her husband.. The cause of the divorce stated in the petition is intended to be brought under the clause of the statute which allows a divorce to be granted, when “ either party shall offer such indignities to the other as shall render his or her condition intolerable.” The trial was before the court, and there is a finding of the facts upon which a divorce was granted, and the defendant appealed.
It may not be necessary here to pass upon the sufficiency of the petition, but it appears to be clear' that the court, when finding abuse that is not charged, and acts said to be indignities, should have found, if not the acts in minute detail, at least the character of the acts, which, as indignities, are regarded by the court as a ground of divorce.
The judgment is, with the concurrence of the other judges, reversed, and the cause remanded.