Bates v. Bates

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

The husband’s libel charged desertion. The wife’s answer admitted separation and alleged that his cruelty and indignities justified the separation. The master found against her and recommended a divorce. The court below overruled the master and dismissed the libel. The case is here upon libellant’s appeal.

The parties were married March 11, 1939. He was forty-six years old, she twenty-nine. He had been married before, had been divorced, and, before marrying respondent, had lived with a woman in a clerically unblessed union. He is an engineer employed by a rubber…