Whitcomb v. Whitcomb
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Chickasaw District Court. On tlie 14th. day of October, 1872, plaintiff filed bis petition in tbe District Court ‘of Butler county, claiming a divorce from tbe defendant. Tbe petition charged tbe defendant with adultery committed with one A. B. King, and such cruel and inhuman treatment as to endanger tbe life of the plaintiff. There was service of tbe original notice by publication.
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Appeal from Chickasaw District Court. On tlie 14th. day of October, 1872, plaintiff filed bis petition in tbe District Court ‘of Butler county, claiming a divorce from tbe defendant. Tbe petition charged tbe defendant with adultery committed with one A. B. King, and such cruel and inhuman treatment as to endanger tbe life of the plaintiff. There was service of tbe original notice by publication. On tbe 30th day of October, 1872, after entering the default of tbe defendant, it was ordered that tbe venue in tbe cause be changed to tbe Floyd county District Court, and J. W. Woods and W. A.…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrogk, J.
I. The cause is here for trial anew. It is satisfactorily established by the evidence that the parties were married at Jefferson county, New York, in January 1855. Shortly afterward they took up their residence at Cleveland, Ohio, where they remained until the year 1864, when they removed to Bremer county, in this State, where they continued to reside together as husband and wife, upon a farm owned by the plaintiff, until the year 1871. In the fall of that year they had a personal quarrel, and the defendant left the farm and went to a neighbor’s house where she remained some six weeks. During…
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