Court Opinion

ID: 9811302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:16:06.774595+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:11:45.223664
License: Public Domain

Stacy, J.,
dissenting: I regret very much my inability to concur in the disposition that is to be made of this cause. I am not in disagreement with any of the principles of law stated in the opinion of the Court, but my position arises from a different conception of the significance which should be given to some of the essential facts of the instant record.
The petitioner alleges that, for good and sufficient reasons, she can no longer live with the respondent as his wife. If this be true, the present judgment would seem to be a hard measure of justice for her and for her children. But the Court’s decision, as I understand it, is based upon the hope that the healing balm of time, “the great softener of anger and soother of pain,” will successfully'dispel the fears upon which this allegation is made. I do not dissent from this hope, but to my mind it is too shadowy and holds out too little promise of fruit to serve as a controlling factor in determining the rights of the parties. I have a different estimate of the record. However, as the present order is subject to' change or modification at any time, I shall not undertake to state now the full reasons for my dissent.