Case ID: w-va_65/html/0354-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Brannon, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHARLESTON.
    Murphy v. Murphy.
    Submitted September 11, 1908.
    Decided March 23, 1909.
    •Appeal from Circuit Court, Wood County.
    Bill by. Leota Grace Murphy against Lawrence D. Murphy Bill dismissed and Leota Grace Murphy appeals.
    
      Reversed and Decree Entered..
    James Watsoh and J. D. Cutlip, for appellant.
   Brannon, Judge:

The circuit court of Wood county dismissed a bill for divorce filed by Leota Grace Murphy against Lawrence D. Murphy based on adultery, and tire wife appeals.

No defense was made by the defendant. We think that the fact of adultery is sustained by proof of the actual act, and by proof by other -witnesses of his visiting houses of ill fame and going to rooms with its female inmates and his having them, in their nightclothes, on his lap. We, therefore, reverse the decree of dismissal, and enter a decree that the bond of matrimony between Leota Grace Murphy and Lawrence D. Murphy be dissolved and they be absolutely divorced from each other.

Reversed and Decree Entered.