Case ID: la_160/html/0809-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ROGERS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(107 So. 582)
    No. 27226.
    FRIED v. POPOVITCH.
    (March 1, 1926.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Divorce <&wkey;>93(.2)—Husband’s petition, alleging adultery of wife resulting in her venereal disease and conceiving a child, held to state cause for divorce-.
    Husband’s petition, alleging that during period in which he lived apart from his wife she committed acts of adultery as a result of which she contracted venereal disease and conceived a child, and that he refused to live with her after discovering her conduct, states a cause and right of action for divorce.
    Appeal from Twenty-Pourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; L. Robert Rivarde, Judge.
    Suit for divorce by Henry L. Pried against Albertha Popoviteh, his wife. Prom a judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals.
    Judgment set aside, and ease remanded for further proceedings.
    Andrew H. Thalheim, of Gretna, for appellant.
    Girault Parrar, of New Orleans, for appellee.
   ROGERS, J.

Plaintiff’s suit for a divorce was dismissed on an exception bf no cause or right of action, and he has appealed from the judgment.

The judge a quo has not filed any written reasons, and the defendant has not appeared in this court either by argument or by brief, so that we are not informed upon what ground the judgment of dismissal was based. However, we have examined the allegations of the petition and are of the opinion they disclose a cause and right of action. These allegations, briefly stated, are that plaintiff and his wife lived separate and apart for about five months; that during said period defendant committed acts of adultery with various persons whose names are unknown to petitioner; that as the result of her said adulterous acts she contracted a venereal disease; , that she also conceived a child of whom she was prematurely delivered; that plaintiff had no knowledge of said acts of his wife when their conjugal relations were resumed, and that as soon as he discovered her adultery and. consequent pregnancy he refused to live with her any longer.

Por the reasons assigned, the judgment appealed from is set aside, and it is now ordered that the exception of no cause or right of action filed by defendant be and the same is hereby overruled, and this case is remanded to the district court to be further proceeded with according to law.