Barrington v. Barrington

By section 3795 of the Co,de the chancery court is authorized to grant divorces from the bonds of matrimony “in favor of the wife when the husband has committed actual violence on her person, attended with danger to life or health, or when from his conduct there is reasonable apprehension of such violence.” By the act approved .September 10, 1915 (Sess. Acts 1915, p. 370), the quoted section was amended by the addition of the following:

“Or when the wife without support from him has lived separate and apart from the bed a.nd board of the husband for five years next preceding the filing of the…