14 Ky. 251 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1823
_ THIS is a writ of error to reverse a decree, which) after granting a divorce, divided the estate, .in favor of the wife against the husband, and the object of the writ is to revise that part, of the proceedings which divided the estate. It is contended that the writ of error will not lie for that purpose, and that it ought to be tjuash-ed. There can be no doubt that no writ of error can feach the decree granting a divorce;, for. the act ássembly regulating writs of error, expressly precludes a writ of error from reaching a decree of the kind. ' It has also been decided by this court, in the case of Simp
We, therefore, leaving the divorce untouched, and only looking into the evidence on which it was founded, so far as may be necessary to see whether it is a meritorious case on the part of the complainant, shall proceed to examine the division of estate which was made l>y the court below.
The parties are aged and had lived together about thirty-five years, and raised a considerable number of children, most of whom had arrived at years of discretion before this bill was hied. By their joint exertions, in which the complainant below seems to have borne her. full share, they have amassed a competent estate of land, slaves and chattels, which does not appear to be much embarrassed. The separation does appear to
We cannot say that the allow^ice is inequitable; for no good reason can be assigned why, if she is corn-pelled to a separation, not by her own fault, but entirely5 by the ill conduct of her husband, that she should receive less than if he had been taken from her by death. Indeed, so far as her standing in society is concerned,.the latter is the preferable case. In this, she might live the,, respccted'widow; in that, she must remain the repuai-* ated wife, in the eyes of the unthinking world.
We, therefore, see no reason for disturbing the decree, and it must be affirmed with costs.