Angle v Angle
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 11 May 1848 |
| Date | 11 May 1848 |
| Court | Ecclesiastical Court |
English Reports Citation: 163 E.R. 1161
IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS AT DOCTORS' COMMONS
S. C. 6 Notes of Cases, 192, 12 Jur. 525.
angle against angle Consistory Court of London, May llth, 1848.-An allegation " in part responsive " to a wife's libel for a divorce, by leason of the husband's adultery, pleading some contradictions to the libel, but not denying the adultery charged, was rejected, on the ground that it in substance admitted so much of the charge as, if proved by the wife, would entitle her to a divorce, and that nothing was pleaded which in law amounted to connivance or condonation on her part. [S. C 6 Notes of Cases, 192 , 12 Jur. 525.] This was a suit for a divorce by reason of adultery promoted by Mrs Susan Angle against her [635] husband Mi John Angle The mainage of the parties took place on the 26th of April, 1835 The h'fth article of the libel pleaded the cohabitation in vanous places in and netir Loadou till the spring ot 1837, when the husband went to reside at Boulogne , that a few days afterwardsj he was joined by his wife, where she remained foi five weeks ; that by teason of illness she for the benefit of medical advice, with the approbation of her husband, came o\er to England to her father's residence ; that early in June, 18J7. she lejomed her husband at Boulogne for a short time, after which she retained to England, at the request of her husband, to endeavour to borrow money of her father, that in July fallowing she again leturned to hei husband at Boulogne, and cohabited with him till October, 1837, when at his suggestion she again came oven to her father's residence in the City Road, where she ever since has continued to reside The sixth article pleaded that early in November, 1M37, Mrs A in a letter to her husband expressed her intention to return to him in France ; that on the receipt of that letter he, on the 7th November, INJ7, having commenced, or being about to commence, an adulterous intercourse, sent a letter to the mother of his wife, in which he expressed himself in the words following -" I received a letter from your daughter, dated the 6th inst, wherein she states she is about letuining to France ; I am fully determined nothing on earth shall induce me to live with hei again " The eighth article pleaded that in November, 1837, a woman, E. R., with whom Mr. A had, unknown to his wife, been criminally connected, [636] and by whom he had a child before he left England, proceeded at the invitation of Mr A to Boulogne, there to renew suoh her criminal connexion with him , that from such time he and bl. & A. in.-37* ANGLE I'. ANGLE 1 ROB. EGC 637 the baid E K. lived, cohabited together, and committed adultery till the death of E K whieh occurred in August, 1845 The ninth article pleader! that during the cohabitation ot Mr A. and E R men tioued in the preceding article, the said E. R gave birth to three children The eleventh article pleaded that Mr A. admitted the...
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