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MERTENS v. MERTENS

No. 31562.

38 Wn.2d 55 (1951)

227 P.2d 724

WALTER C. MERTENS, Appellant, v. HILDUR E. MERTENS, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

February 15, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Copeland & Tollefson, for appellant.

Dorsey, Ruff & Morton, for respondent.

HILL, J.

The trial court dismissed an action brought by a husband for a divorce, finding that the wife had "been guilty of no conduct which is cruel or calculated to subject the plaintiff to personal indignities rendering his wife burdensome." The husband appeals.

[1] The husband's testimony built up a case of that seemed to him excessive religious zeal on the part of his wife: a refusal to use cosmetics or to patronize beauty parlors, and disapproval...

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