Pereira v. Pereira

This is an appeal by a wife from a decree of the family court denying and dismissing her petition for a bed and board divorce.

The parties were married on April 13, 1926. No children were born of the marriage. In April 1964, they had an extended vacation in Europe visiting, among many countries, their native Portugal. When they returned to the United States, they brought with them the husband’s 17-year-old niece. She took up residence with the parties in their Cumberland home. The respondent operates a cafe. On the evening of October 25, 1965, the niece visited respondent at his place of…