Barnard v. Barnard

Alice Smith Barnard brought a suit for a divorce from bed and board against her husband, W. Frank Barnard, on the ground of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily harm and constructive desertion. The bill also prayed for the custody of their child—a boy about five years of age— for suit money and for alimony. The defendant answered the bill, denying specifically every allegation thereof, and further charging his wife with various acts of incontinence and with conduct on her part entitling him to a divorce from the bond of matrimony. He prayed that his answer, in so far as it charged his…