14 Pa. Super. 520 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1900
Opinion by
This application for divorce is apparently based on the two
A proceeding for divorce is subjected in the appellate court to scrutiny from beginning to end. Particularly is this directed to the testimony, in order that the merit or demerit of the application may on the whole be determined. It is a duty which the Supreme Court have held to be upon them. It is no less a duty upon tins court: Mendenhall v. Mendenhall, 12 Pa. Superior Ct. 290. The libellant left his wife and came into Pennsylvania. There is some evidence of unkindly relation between the parties, upon which it is possible an inference might be founded that the husband did not intend to return to his wife or to take her with him. There is no direct evidence that any invitation was given.to accompany him, or that he prepared a home for her in Pennsylvania. The respondent, after the departure of her husband, left Morefield and went into another state, where she attempted to support herself. There was indubitably a separation of the parties, but it has
The decree of the court below is set aside and the costs are directed to be paid by the appellee.