Case ID: ga_165/html/0122-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LANGLEY v. LANGLEY.
    Where evidence of a confession is the sole support of a libel for divorce on the ground of adultery, a nonsuit is not erroneous.
    Divorce, 19 C. J. p. 135, n. 46, 48, 50; p. 137, n. 79.
    No. 6006.
    October 14, 1927.
    Libel for divorce. Before Judge Humphries. Fulton superior court. March 28, 1927.
    
      Howard Stevens, for plaintiff.
    
      John A. Boykin, solicitor-general, for defendant.
   Gilbert, J.

This is a suit for divorce based upon the ground-of adultery. The only evidence tending to support the petition was that of a confession. The court directed a nonsuit, and the petitioner excepted. No error was thus committed. “The confessions of a party to acts of adultery or cruel treatment should be received with great caution, and if unsupported by corroborating circumstances, and made with a view to be evidence in the cause, should not be deemed sufficient to grant a divorce.” Civil Code (1910), § 2949; Head v. Head, 2 Ga. 191, 210; Buckholts v. Buckholts, 24 Ga. 238; Woolfolk v. Woolfolk, 53 Ga. 661; Rorie v. Rorie, 132 Ga. 719, 724 (64 S. E. 1070).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.