Gerdink v. Meginnis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The record before us shows ‘that investigation had convinced the plaintiff that the charges set out in his complaint against the defendant, were without foundation in fact;’ that the plaintiff and his wife ‘had become reconciled’ and were again living happily together as husbánd and wife. Upon this showing we are led to inquire, Would the ties which now hold this family be in any way strengthened, and their relation made more agreeable to the parties interested, by having the cause continued on the docket of the court for trial and the parties compelled to appear and testify? Would the love and confidence of the husband, for and in his wife be strengthened and increased by having the matter of any suspicious, or even positively bad, conduct aired in court, possibly before a horde of persons to whom every bit of scandal is a morsel sweet to their tongues? These questions need no answer. Courts should be, and are, ever ready to lend their strong arm to protect the home. They will not lend their aid towards destroying it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. McNabb v. Allen Superior Court No. 2