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31 Miss. 154

Waskam v. Waskam

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1856

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1856-04-15

Hon. Selden S. Wright, vice chancellor. The appellant filed her bill in the court below against her husband, the appellee, seeking for a divorce a mensa et thoro, to which he demurred; and the demurrer being sustained, and the bill dismissed by the vice chancellor, Mrs. Waskam appealed.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1903

2 state decisions

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Decided 1856-04-15

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Per curiam.

¶1— This was a bill by the appellant in the Yice Chancery Court holden at Yazoo city, against the appellee, for a divorce a mensa et thoro.

¶2The allegations of the bill do not show that the appellee had been guilty of such extreme cruelty as is necessary to bring the case within the operation of the statute. It shows the appellee to be a man of intemperate habits, and of such manners and conduct as would necessarily be produced by such habits. But mere intemperance in a man’s habits, harshness of manner, and, in the language of the hill, indecency of conduct, are not sufficient. The cruelty must be something more than mere injuries to a person’s sensibility or sense of delicacy.

¶3Decree affirmed.

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