Cole v. Cole
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. The wife, Martha T., claims a divorce, alleging as a cause, “inhuman¡treatment endangering her life.” She also asks alimony and the care and custody of their only child, a son, now aged about thirteen years. The issue joined was submitted to a jury; verdict for plaintiff, and a judgment followed granting the divorce, awarding alimony and the custody of the child._ Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
l divoece • Síytote3" aiieged. I. It is first claimed that the petition- does not state facts sufficient to warrant a divorce. In disposing of this point it will become necessary t° state as briefly as possible the main allegations of the petition, which undertakes to give at great length and in detail, the matters constituting the “ inhuman- treatment.”
*436These parties were married in 1852. Plaintiff alleges in various forms her own innocence and the discharge of her duties as a wife; that they lived happily until 1856, when he failed to regard the sanctity of his vows, and commenced a course…
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- Brockman v. BerryhillSupreme Court of Iowa · 1864
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