Armstrong v. Armstrong
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel, filed in its substituted form on October 26, 1917, seeking a divorce on the sole ground of cruel and abusive treatment. The case was heard by Fox, J. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Libel, filed in its substituted form on October 26, 1917, seeking a divorce on the sole ground of cruel and abusive treatment. The case was heard by Fox, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. The judge, after taking the matter under advisement, filed the following memorandum of decision: “I accept the testimony offered by the libellant and her physicians as true, but I do not find cruel and abusive treatment within the meaning of the statute, and the libellant rests upon this charge alone. Not only is there no evidence of physical violence, but there is no complaint of any unkind act…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The libellant petitioned for a divorce, alleging cruel and abusive treatment. She testified that she was married in 1910, that in 1916 her husband “stayed away from her longer than he had ever in four years and went out many evenings;” that when she spoke to him about this he said “he had been going . . . with a girl in Boston;” that she became unhappy, could not sleep, “had extreme attacks of vomiting;” that “she expostulated with him and told him of her suffering” and he said he could not give up the girl; that she was worried, became sick and has not completely recovered her health. There…
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