Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0212-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JANE HANSEL v. JOHN HANSEL.
    Divorce-confessions not evidence — words not extreme cruelty.
    The confessions of the parties in a divorce case cannot be received as evidence.
    Where the husband says to his wife, who resolves no longer to live with him, that if she go, and afterwards get any thing on his account lie will kill her, that is not extieme cruelty in him.
    Divorce. Cause extreme cruelty. It was in pro.of, that the parties were married in Indiana, seven years ago, and lived together two or three years. She complained of ill treatment, and said> she thought her life was in danger from ill usage and excessive work, when she resolved to leave him, and told him so. He told her, if, after she went, she got any thing on his account, he would kill her. She has since supported herself by mantuamaking.
   By the Court.

The statute expressly prohibits the granting a divorce on the confession of either party. Without the declarations of the petitioner, there is no proof in this case of ill usage or cruelty.