Case Name: KATY THORP v. MILES THORP
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1834-12
Citations: 1 Ohio Ch. 763
Docket Number: 
Parties: KATY THORP v. MILES THORP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery Ohio
Volume: 1
Pages: 763–763

Head Matter:
KATY THORP v. MILES THORP.
Divorce — gross neglect — separation by agreement — division of property — adultery.
Gross neglect is not established by proof of personal violence, reconciliation, agreement to separate, a division of furniture, or the husband’s adulterous intercourse with others.
Divorce for gross neglect. These parties quarreled for some time; he abused her, and they were reconciled, and lived together. They then separated: he said he was sorry she would not live with him, but he could get as good as she to live with him. They divided their furniture and each took part. One woman swore he was ‘a mean man, drunken, idle, do-no-good-fellow, and never did.’ Snyder testified to their quarreling, and that one time he took down with him a schoolmistress, but the landlord would not let them live in the house, and they went to a schoolhouse, where Thorp went to bed with her. In the morning the witness went into the school house, found her uncovered, and took the pains to cover her up.

Opinion:
Court.
Let the bill be dismissed, there is no cause for divorce for gross neglect, whatever else there may be.