Tucker v. Tucker

The libelant-wife was granted a divorce on the grounds of intolerable severity. She received custody of the minor children, and was awarded thirty dollars a week toward their support. The libelee contends the award is unsupportable, and has appealed.

He maintains that neither the findings nor the evidence report or establish the elements of intolerable severity. Furthermore, he contends that the evidence shows the libelant to have breached the marital covenant on her own part, so that she is ineligible for a divorce, and that the trial court’s negative evaluation of this evidence was…