MacKie v. MacKie

208 Cal.App.2d 547 (1962)

ELEANORA MACKIE, Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

MALCOLM MACKIE, Defendant and Appellant.

Civ. No. 25873.

California Court of Appeals. Second Dist., Div. One.

Oct. 16, 1962.

Malcolm Mackie, in pro. per., for Defendant and Appellant.

Edwards, Edwards & Ashton for Plaintiff and Respondent.

LILLIE, J.

After 20 years of marriage, plaintiff wife, now 80 years old, sued defendant for divorce in 1959 alleging a course of grievous physical and mental cruelty. Upon charges and proof--that defendant strangled her to unconsciousness in 1957 and repeatedly beat her, on four occasions…