Lister v. Lister

This petition was brought by a wife to obtain a divorce from bed, board and future cohabitation on the single ground of the husband’s alleged extreme cruelty. After a hearing before a justice of the superior court the petition, which also prayed for custody of the minor child of said parties and allowances for support, was denied and dismissed. From that decision the petitioner has prosecuted her bill of exceptions to this court.

The petitioner Mary Edna Lister is forty-seven years of age, had been married previously, and had a child of that marriage. The respondent William Harvey Lister also…