Case ID: mich_131/html/0441-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Grant, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FISCHER v. FISCHER.
    Divorce — Adultery—Evidence.
    Evidence in a divorce case reviewed, and held to establish, a charge of adultery.
    Appeal from Houghton; Streeter, J.
    Submitted June 6, 1902.
    (Docket No. 23.)
    Decided September 17, 1902.
    Bill by Joseph Fischer against Margaret Blau Fischer for a divorce. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
    Reversed.
    
      Larson & Galbraith, for complainant.
    
      A. W. Kerr, for defendant.
   Grant, J.

Complainant seeks a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery. The court denied a decree because the proof was not “absolutely convincing.” We are compelled to reach a different conclusion. It is difficult to prove adultery more clearly than it is proven in this case. The adulterous disposition and the opportunity to gratify it are shown by the most positive testimony of witnesses wholly disinterested. Defendant and her corespondent, Plyer, are shown to have occupied the same room and the same bed on several occasions. They rented rooms in Ashland, Wis., where they lived together, and were known as Mr. and Mrs. Plyer. She spoke of herself as Mrs. Plyer, and he treated her in the presence of others as his wife. The question being one of fact, it is unnecessary to review it.

Decree reversed, and decree entered in this court for complainant.

Hooker, C. J., Moore and Montgomery, JJ., concurred.