68 Iowa 647 | Iowa | 1886
The plaintiff is fifty-two years old and the defendant forty-five. Prior to October, 1880, the defendant was a widow and the plaintiff a widower. They were married in that month, and lived together as husband and wife for about eighteen months. In April, 1882, the defendant commenced an action for a divorce on the ground that the plaintiff had been guilty of such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of the defendant. To the action the defendant made no defense, and a divorce was granted in October, 1882. In November or December, 1883, they were again married, and lived together as husband and wife until September or October, 1884, when the defendant left the plaintiff, and in January, 1885, this action was commenced. If the evidence of these parties could be fully believed, each has applied epithets to the other which cannot be commended, and, according to the evidence of the plaintiff, the defendant, on more than one occasion, threatened him with personal violence; and yet both profess to be Christians, and one of the complaints made by the plaintiff is that his wife refused to kneel when he was engaged in prayer; and that, on one occasion, when he was so engaged in his bedroom, he testifies that the defendant came unnecessarily into the room and interrupted him. This she denies, — that is to say, she testifies she went into the room for some necessary purpose; but she admits that she declined to kneel when he was engaged in prayer, for the reason that she did not believe in his sincerity.
The decree of the circuit court must be reversed.
Reversed.