Radford v. Radford
| Decision Date | 11 October 1904 |
| Parties | RADFORD v. RADFORD. |
| Court | Kentucky Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Christian County.
"Not to be officially reported."
Action by Cyrus Radford against Florence R. Radford for divorce. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
James Breathitt and Hazelrigg, Chenault & Hazelrigg, for appellant.
Downer & Russell, for appellee.
The appellant and appellee are husband and wife, and lived together as such until the 23d day of June, 1900, when they entered into articles of separation, by which it was agreed among other things, as follows: The appellant is a naval officer in the service of the United States, and was at the time of the institution of this action in active service in the Philippines. The appellee is the daughter of a naval officer, and after the execution of the articles of separation by herself and husband took up her abode with her mother at a boarding house in the city of New York, being No 144 West Sixty-Fifth street, conducted by a Mrs. Humphries. After the separation from his wife, the husband becoming suspicious of her chastity, employed professional detectives through the Metropolitan Detective Agency to discover and bring to light, if it existed, evidence of her guilt. As a result of the report of the agency, he instituted this action in the Christian circuit court for a divorce, charging his wife with having been guilty of such lewd and lascivious behavior as proved her to be unchaste and also with adultery, naming one Crane as co-respondent. The answer placed in issue all the allegations of the petition, including the residence of appellant in Christian county, Ky.
The testimony in this case is exceedingly voluminous, making a transcript of some 600 pages, and anything like an analysis of it would extend this opinion beyond all reasonable bounds. It is sufficient to say that the testimony of the detectives and their friends, which constitutes appellant's (plaintiff's) evidence, if it is true, abundantly establishes the allegations of the petition. According to it appellee is little better than a common prostitute, and the house in which she boarded not many degrees above a brothel. The detectives obtained lodging in the house where appellee lived, and have detailed with precise circumstantiality saturnalian orgies, in which she and her companions participated, which would disgrace the dissolute degeneracy of the orient. This evidence tends to prove that the keeper of the boarding house, appellant's mother, and all the boarders in the house at least acquiesced in the crimes...
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