Case ID: kan_90/html/0039-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "West, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph S. Bunger, Appellant, v. Lena Bunger, Appellee.
    
    No. 18,276.
    SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.
    Divorce — Ground — Impotency — 'Not Established. When the issue is the alleged impotency of the defendant and seven physicians who made an examination testified that such party was physically normal, a refusal to decree a divorce will not be disturbed.
    Appeal from Johnson district court.
    Opinion filed June 7, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    
      E. J. Sheldon, and S. I. Shively, both of Paola, for the appellant. •
    
      W. L. Joyce, of Paola, for the appellee.
   The opinion of the court was délivered by

West, J.:

This is an action for divorce on the ground of impotency. When this case was here before (Bunger v. Bunger, 85 Kan. 564, 117 Pac. 1017) it was held that to constitute a cause for divorce the defect complained of must be incurable, and the decree was reversed' with directions to procure expert medical testimony as to the existence and permanency of such alleged defect. A retrial resulted in a denial of the relief prayed for, and the plaintiff appeals and contends that under the evidence he is entitled to a divorce. While the testimony given by the parties was utterly conflicting, seven physicians who had made an examination of the defendant gave their opinion to the effect that she was physically normal.

The judgment is therefore affirmed.