Dever v. Dever

This is a petition for divorce, filed January 19, 1929, on the ground that the patties have lived separate and apart from each other for a period of more than ten years. After a hearing by a justice of the Superior Court the petition was denied. The cause is in this court on the bill of exceptions of the petitioner.

There is no dispute on the facts. Petitioner and respondent were married in Woonsocket in 1914. He was twenty-two and she was twenty years of age. Two children born of the marriage are now aged thirteen and eleven years. In 1918, the husband and the wife separated by mutual…