135 N.Y.S. 425 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1912
The action is for divorce on the ground of adultery; the complaint being based solely on the claim that plaintiff contracted! the venereal disease from defendant in January, 1910. Defendant denies the charge, and sets up specific acts of adultery on the part of plaintiff. Each asks for a divorce against the other.
The parties were married January 28, 1903, separated some time in March, 1910, and the action was commenced in October, 1911. Up to the time of their separation the parties resided in the village of De Grasse, St. Lawrence county. On December 28, 1909, defendant left his home in said village to work in a lumber camp at the Windfall, in Clifton, an adjoining town. He worked there until January 15, 1910, when he returned home. Plaintiff visited defendant at the camp once early in the week of defendant’s return, and slept with him on that occasion. It appears from defendant’s testimony, and it is not denied, that the parties cohabited for about a week or 10 days after defendant’s return. About a week or 10 days after such return, plaintiff claims that she became ill, and that'she was advised by defendant to seek treatment from a certain doctor residing in the village of Hermon, in said county. She was treated by this doctor 10 or 12 different times at intervals of 4 or 5 days. The treatment, according to plaintiff, was for “a bad disorder”; according to the doctor, for “a venereal disease.” Defendant says that he did not have any venereal disease when he left the camp, and denies that he ever told plaintiff’s brother that he had contracted such a disease at the camp, but he admits that he had and treated himself fo'r “a bad disease” after his return. Just when he contracted this disease, or when He commenced treatment for it, does not appear. Defendant says that his wife' was the only woman with whom he had intercourse at any time. He was at the camp during all of the time of his employ
Judgment accordingly.