Kinsey v. Kinsey

Eibels for divorces from bed and board, causa scevitice. Upon the proofs exhibited to the court, in both suits, it was ruled by the court on argument, that where a husband shall maliciously either abandon his family, or turn his wife out of doors, or by cruel and barbarous treatment endanger her life, or offer such indignities to her person as to render her condition intolerable, or life burthensome, and thereby force her to withdraw from his house and family — though the act “concerning divorces and alimony,” sect. 10, p. 668, empowers the justices of the Supreme Court to grant the wife in…