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LAXTON v. LAXTON

345 Pa.Super. 450 (1985)

498 A.2d 909

Katherine Jean Quinn LAXTON, Appellant, v. Frank Aubrey LAXTON, Appellee. Katherine Jean Quinn LAXTON, Appellee, v. Frank Aubrey LAXTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed September 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Caranci, Jr., Media, for appellant (at 480).

Robert M. DiOrio, Media, for appellant (at 1617).

Before WIEAND, WATKINS and GEISZ, JJ.

WIEAND, Judge:

Where a wife has commenced an action for divorce based on indignities to her person1 and has obtained from the master a recommendation that she be divorced from her husband, may the court, acting on a petition by the husband, enter a decree of divorce despite the wife's opposition? This is the principal issue in this case.

On August 12, 1977, the wife commenced an action in divorce in which she alleged that her husband...

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