Case Name: ELIZABETH KEITH v. FRANCIS KEITH
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1834-04
Citations: 1 Wright 518
Docket Number: 
Parties: *ELIZABETH KEITH v. FRANCIS KEITH.
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: 532–532

Head Matter:
*ELIZABETH KEITH v. FRANCIS KEITH.
Divorce — impotency of the husband.
Divorce. Cause, impotence in the defendant.
The -petitioner is about 28 years old, and was married about a-year and a half since to the defendant, who was about 35 years old, of common size, but without beard, and a fine feminine voice. They lived together about a year, when she left him and went to her mother’s, with whom she has since resided. He lives with hissister and keeps house, and sometimes preaches and exhorts at the Methodist meetings. Her character is good.
Three witnesses, respectable men, concurred in testifying that they subjected the defendant to an examination, a few days before-the court, and that he was destitute of the members or qualifications of a man. He had no testicle, only a little loose skin, as large-as that containing the testicle of a squirrel. He had no penis — between the place of one and his navel there was a teat about three-fourths of an inch long, with a black spot in the centre of it, out of which he discharged urine; this was not as long as the penis of a. child six weeks old, and appeared like a piece of loose skin.
Fishback for the petitioner.
Fox contra.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
Take a decree for a divorce. Let each keep-the property they have, and order the defendant to pay the costs or-be subject to execution for them.