Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0563-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lane, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELIZABETH CONN v. EDWARD CONN.
    Divorce — requisites of petition — extreme cruelty.
    The petitioner for divorce for -extreme cruelty should specify some acts of cruelty, that the defendant may know what he is to meet.
    Extreme cruelty is personal violence.
    Divorce. The bill charged that the defendant treated the petitioner with extreme cruelty, till she was obliged to leave him.
    
      Fox, for the .petitioner.
   Lane, J.

Under the existing law you cannot get along with this, if fhe petition sets forth no act of cruelty. Extreme cruelty as uniformly determined under the law, consists of acts of personal violence, and some acts should bé stated that the defendant may know what to answer. . -

The bill is dismissed without prejudice.