Case Name: Phillippia Lusby Carre, by her next friend Hayman Taylor against Charles Carre
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1797-03
Citations: 2 Yeates 207
Docket Number: 
Parties: Phillippia Lusby Carre, by her next friend Hayman Taylor against Charles Carre.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 2
Pages: 207–207

Head Matter:
Phillippia Lusby Carre, by her next friend Hayman Taylor against Charles Carre.
On a libel for a divorce from bed and board, the facts when contested shall be tried by the court, per testees.
Libel for a divorce from bed and board, for barbarous treatment and indignities offered to tbe wife.
Mr. Du Ponceou for the respondent, prayed a rule for trial by special jury, which was objected to by Mr. Lewis for the libellant.

Opinion:
Per ewriam.
The 10th section of the act passed 19th September 1785, (2 Dall. St Laws, 387,) directs, tbat upon due proof, of cruel treatment, &c. in manner aforesaid, the court may grant a divorce from bed and board. The words are not on due proof and trial, &c. referring to the third section of the act. This case therefore is left as it is in the civil law, to a trial by tbe court fer testes, and there is strong reason lor the distinction between such divorces and those from the bonds of matrimony.
Motion denied.