Tendler v. Tendler

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Kate Tendler, as plaintiff, filed a bill of eom7 plaint in the lower court against Morris Tendler, as defendant, claiming that she was the lawful wife of defendant," and praying for a limited divorce from him upon the ground of cruelty. She alleged that in the year 1910 she and the defendant were united in marriage in the District of Columbia, under a regularly issued marriage license, and with a marriage ceremony performed by a rabbi, who was fully authorized so to act; that no children were born of the marriage; that at the time of her marriage to…