Schriver v. Schriver

This is an appeal by the husband (defendant, appellant) from a decree for separate maintenance, requiring payment of $200 per month to the wife (plaintiff, appellee) , for the support of herself and two children, awarding her custody of the children, and dismissing a cross-bill for a divorce a mensa (on the ground of cruelty) and custody of the children. The grounds of the amended bill are cruelty and desertion, and adultery with a woman who will be referred to as the corespondent, which of course sh.e is not.

The parties were married in 1928; he was 19, she was 20. They have two children, a…