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65 Fla. 53

Hooker v. Hooker

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 28, 1913

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1913-01-28

<p>Appealed from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County.</p>

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1936

5 state decisions

Relies on Hancock v. Hancock · Palmer v. Palmer

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Decree affirmed · Decided 1913-01-28

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Cockrell, J.

¶1In this case the wife sued for a divorce upon the grounds of adultery, extreme cruelty and habitual indulgence of a violent and ungovernable temper. The decree was granted upon the last two grounds, and the husband appeals.

¶2There is sharp conflict in the evidence upon all the charges, but we find from a careful reading of the record that extreme cruelty is made out, and the decree will not be disturbed.

¶3While the wife was in bed from the effects of a most *54serious operation, the husband over her protest introduced into the house as a servant a woman of known dissolute character who with his evident approval, came into the room of himself and wife in an almost nude condition, and entered with him into the game of peek-a-boo, at the same time casting lascivious glances at him. There were other acts of impropriety testified -to as to this woman, and when the wife from her sick bed complained, the husband encouraged the woman in her tart replies to the wife. There were also conduct and remarks of the husband as to another woman that would naturaly drive any pure woman, as was the wife, to the verge of insanity, inflicting the most cruel sufferings.

¶4These facts justify the divorce under the ruling in Palmer v. Palmer, 26 Fla. 215, 7 South. Rep. 864, and bear no relation to the harmless flirting spoken of in Hancock v. Hancock, 55 Fla. 680, 45 South. Rep. 1020.

¶5The decree is affirmed.

Shackleford, C. J., and Taylor, Hocker and Whitfield, J. J., concur.
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