Case Name: GRACE BARNES v. SAMUEL BARNES
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1833-10
Citations: 1 Wright 475
Docket Number: 
Parties: GRACE BARNES v. SAMUEL BARNES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 487–488

Head Matter:
GRACE BARNES v. SAMUEL BARNES.
Divorce — condonation—wilful absence by procurement.
Where the injury which is ground of divorce has been forgiven, it cannot he afterwards made the ground of divorce.
Where the wilful absence relied upon was a leaving at the request of the petitioner, or with her funds furnished, it will not avail her as ground of divorce.
Divorce. Cause, extreme cruelty and wilful absence. These parties were married in Muskingum in 1829. She had a child before •she was married, but afterwards her character was good. He be•came intemperate, and neglected to provide food or clothing; was frequently absent. . He abused her person by blows, and she struck back, after which they became reconciled, and lived together, and again quarrelled. They had one child, and she said if he would leave her, she would give him money, and then he left, and has been: absent ever since. She has earned something by her industry.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
One cause alleged for the divorce is extreme-cruelty. Sufficient of cruelty has been proven to ground a decree upon, but the whole has been forgiven, and the parties afterwards lived together. After condonation, parties are not allowed to look back to a previous offence, as a ground of divorce. That is this-case. The absence, if for a sufficient time to entitle a party to a divorce, was by her own procurement. She hired her husband to leave her, and furnished him the means to go away. His absence-will not, therefore, avail.
Divorce refused.