84 So. 513 | La. | 1920
Plaintiff alleges that he and the defendant were married December 5, 1914, and that on June 29,1915, the defendant left their common domicile without just cause or provocation; and he asks for a judgment of separation of bed and board on the ground of abandonment.
The wife answers that she did not abandon the plaintiff, but that on June 29, 1915, plaintiff ordered her to pack her suit case, and that he took her, without any request on her part, to her father’s house, and there left her, and, reconvening, she alleged that plaintiff had been guilty of excessive cruel treatment and outrages towards her on June 29, 1915, and on occasions previous thereto, and that he had been guilty of public defamation of her.
There was judgment in favor of the defendant wife, rejecting plaintiff’s demand for a separation on the ground of abandonment, and, further, in her favor for a separation from bed and board from him. Plaintiff has appealed.
The evidence is very convincing that the alleged abandonment by the wife was not voluntary on her part; and her departure from their house was forced on her by the husband. The judgment appealed from in that respect is affirmed.
It was cruel and outrageous in the extreme on the part of the husband to order his young wife of six months, who was then pregnant, to leave the matrimonial domicile'and to take her back to her father’s house and there leave her. It was further cruel and outra
We are relieved from passing upon the question suggested by counsel for plaintiff as to whether a husband can be held responsible for his acts and words while laboring under a spell of insanity.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.