193 P. 393 | Mont. | 1920
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action for divorce based upon three grounds: Desertion, willful neglect, cruel and inhuman treatment, in that defendant has falsely and repeatedly uttered and published charges against the chastity of plaintiff. The answer generally denies the allegations of the complaint and alleges that defendant has furnished plaintiff a suitable home but that plaintiff has failed and refused to live with the defendant and without cause has deserted him; that plaintiff has been guilty of conduct which has been of such a nature and character as to render the continuance of the marriage relation between defendant and plaintiff perpetually unreasonable and intolerable, thus defeating the legitimate objects of marriage; that defendant has been and is willing and ready to furnish plaintiff a suitable home if she will reside with him, but that she still’ refuses and fails so to do. There was reply. The trial court made no specific findings 9f fact, but rendered a general judgment in favor of the plaintiff to the effect that all the charges in the complaint were true,
Briefly stated, the testimony discloses that the father of the plaintiff had come to this country from France and was a friend of the defendant; that plaintiff’s father told the defendant of his daughter, who still resided in France, and defendant advanced money for the purchase of a ticket for the purpose of bringing her from France to Helena, and that a few days after her arrival, without previous acquaintance, they were married on the fourteenth day of March, 1915, and that at a party or dance, held in honor of the marriage, immediately following the ceremony, the parties quarreled, the plaintiff alleging that he then charged her with being too intimate at the dance with one Croteau. There is also testimony that upon several occasions the defendant, in the presence of others, made statements to the effect that plaintiff was more the wife of Croteau than of himself; that “she was a very bad woman” and should be sent to the penitentiary; that “she has four or five husbands—was Croteau’s wife.” The parties lived together from the fourteenth day of March, 1915, to the eighteenth day of March, 1915, when defendant left for the ranch where he was employed, leaving her in town. On the twenty-ninth day of March she went to the ranch and remained there until the second day of April following. There is also evidence that during her stay at the ranch, they did not cohabit as husband and wife, and that they had trouble while there; that the place of abode furnished by the defendant was not suitable as a dwelling. This testimony is controverted by the defendant. He testified that plaintiff, by reason of her relations with Croteau, refused to make'her home with him, and some testimony was offered by the defendant showing what he claimed the course of conduct pursued by her with Croteau.
The testimony in the case was given largely through the aid of an interpreter and the record .is therefore not as clear as may be desired; but the trial court was in a more advan
By a stipulation filed, after the appeal was perfected, it is
We are not unmindful of the all too prevalent custom of parties to divorce actions marrying again after divorce, during the period when a motion to vacate the judgment may be made, or within which an appeal may be taken. In this
The question raised differs from’ that in the Colorado ease, as the remarriagq here occurred prior to the appeal being taken. Whether that marriage is or is not a valid one is not before us for consideration. Others than the plaintiff and defendant in this action are concerned in that situation. We cannot conclude rights of parties who are not parties to
Objections were made to the reception of evidence, which
The- judgment and order appealed from are affirmd.
Affirmed.