Nardolillo v. Nardolillo

This is a petition for an absolute divorce filed by a husband on the ground that the parties had lived separate and apart for more than ten years. Jurisdiction was based on the wife’s residence in this state. The respondent filed a motion in the nature of a cross petition seeking a divorce only from bed and board on the ground alleged by the petitioner and upon the further statutory ground of his neglect to provide for her.

After a hearing in the superior court the trial justice found that the parties had lived separate and apart for more than ten years, but he nevertheless denied the…