Court Opinion

ID: 9534256
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:38:00.73601+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:57.989241
License: Public Domain

Fontron, J.,
dissenting: After combing the record with care, I am unable to find any corroboration of the charge that the defendant was extremely cruel toward and grossly neglectful of his spouse. Without going into detail, the most that can be said of the corroborating evidence, is that it might corroborate incompatibility, which, in all seriousness, is all that the plaintiff’s own testimony actually establishes.
However, incompatibility is not a ground for divorce in Kansas, and it will not do for this court to equate the term with either gross neglect of duty or extreme cruelty. If an eighth ground is to be added, as ground for divorce, to those already set forth in K. S. A. 1967 Supp. 60-1601, that addition should be accomplished by legislative enactment, not by judicial interpretation.
I would reverse the judgment. Hence, I respectfully dissent.