Manning v. Manning
| Decision Date | 20 April 1931 |
| Docket Number | 29400 |
| Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
| Parties | MANNING v. MANNING |
1 DIVORCE.
Doctrine of condonation applies to what is generally denominated noncontinuing causes of divorce, consisting of single act or series of acts of misconduct, which might be forgiven.
2 DIVORCE.
Doctrine of condonation is inapplicable to causes of divorce of continuing character.
3 DIVORCE.
Habitually cruel and inhuman treatment, as ground for divorce, consists generally of course of conduct, rather than single act.
4. DIVORCE.
Cohabitation after act of cruelty constituting part of habitually cruel and inhuman treatment cannot be considered as condonation.
5. DIVORCE.
Wife's condonation of past acts of husband constituting grounds for divorce is impliedly conditioned upon future good behavior of husband.
6. DIVORCE.
Where cruelty of husband is repeated after condonation, wife's right to make condoned offense a ground for divorce is revived.
HON. J. L. WILLIAMS, Chancellor.
APPEAL from chancery court of Sunflower county, HON. J. L. WILLIAMS, Chancellor.
Suit by Rebecca Elizabeth Manning against R. W. Manning, Jr. From a decree for the complainant, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
Affirmed.
Moody & Johnson, of Indianola, for appellant.
Condonation in the law of divorce is the forgiveness of an antecedent matrimonial offense on condition that it shall not be repeated, and that the offender shall thereafter treat the forgiving party with conjugal kindness. It has been held that the doctrine of condonation applies to all charges of matrimonial misconduct. Thus it has been held to include cruel and inhuman treatment, except that the cruelty is condoned only until the particular act is repeated.
A continuance of cohabitation will condone an act of cruelty and bar divorce therefor, unless it is apparent from the circumstances that the life or health of the innocent party will be endangered by a continuance of the marriage relation.
19 C. J., p. 86, sec. 198; Youngs v. Youngs, 22 N.E. 806.
The doctrine of condonation applies as well to cruelty and other grounds for divorce as to adultery; the difference being that an act of cruelty is condoned only until the particular act is repeated.
Murchison v. Murchison, 171 S.W. 790; Bingham v. Bingham, 149 S.W. 218.
S. D. Neill, of Indianola, for appellee.
The only construction that could be placed on appellee's statement is that the treatment of her by appellant from the time he made his promise was worse instead of better and therefore his past actions and charges were not condoned.
Appellee field her bill against appellant, her husband, in the chancery court of Sunflower county, for divorce and alimony, and custody of their minor child. There was a trial on bill, answer, and proof, resulting in a final decree granting the prayer of the bill. From that decree appellant prosecutes this appeal.
Appellee's ground for divorce was habitually cruel and inhuman treatment. The principal ground relied on by appellant for a reversal of the decree...
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