Case Name: Murphy v. Murphy
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1909-03-23
Citations: 65 W. Va. 354
Docket Number: 
Parties: Murphy v. Murphy.
Judges: 
Reporter: West Virginia Supreme Court
Volume: 65
Pages: 354–354

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.