Bockman v. Ritter

In the appellee’s complaint against the appellant it was shown that the appellee and one Julia F. Thorn were married on the 4th of January, 1879, and that they lived together as husband and wife from that date until the 12th of September, 1896; that four children were born to them, one of whom had died, and two girls and a boy still survived; that during that period he provided his said wife with *251all necessary food and clothing, and furnished her with a good ahd comfortable home; that he treated her kindly and was a good and “dutiful” husband; “that about four years ago, the defendant began…