Smith v. Smith

This is an appeal from a decree granting the wife a divorce a mensa.

The parties were married in 1924, when they were both under twenty. They have two sons, both adults and married. Since 1940 they have frequently quarreled. One or more previous bills for divorce were filed. They both live in the same house, not now as husband and wife. When they had an “argument”, she would strike him and he would strike her, apparently without lasting harm to either. His net earnings have ranged from zero to five hundred dollars or a thousand dollars a year. They both were practically supported by his…