Barclay v. Barclay

This is a suit for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty under the 1923 supplement of the Divorce act. P.L. 1923 p. 464.

Petitioner's petition was filed March 18th, 1927, but citation was not served upon the defendant until April 25th, 1927. The defendant filed answer and counter-claim, alleging extreme mental cruelty, on May 20th, 1927, which was within time.

It is admitted in the testimony that the parties were married in 1917 and lived together from that time until the latter part of June, 1926, since which time they have lived separate and apart.

A counter-claim was filed by the defendant…