Opinion

Meyer v. Hackler

  • 219 La. 750
  • 54 So. 2d 7
  • 1951 La. LEXIS 923
Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Filed
May 28, 1951
Status
Published
Author
Blanc
On the bench
Hamiter, Moise, Blanc
Cited by
18 cases

The opinion

*759 LE BLANC, Justice (concurring).

I concur. However I do not subscribe to some of the statements in the opinion from which it might be implied that a different standard of conduct is tolerated as between a married man and a married woman, depending on which of the two may be the guilty party in committing adultery.

Regardless of how society may look upon the fault of either, and regardless of whose sin may be the greater, we have to consider the matter, in cases of this kind, purely from the standpoint of what the law is and certainly Article 139 of the Revised Civil Code, which specifies adultery as one of two grounds only for obtaining an absolute divorce, makes no distinction between the husband and the wife with respect to which of the two is entitled to the divorce when the other has been found guilty of adultery.

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