Adams v. Adams

Leaming, V. C.

November 11th, 1904, complainant filed a bill against defendant for alimony under the then twentieth (now twenty-sixth) section of the Divorce act. The bill sets forth, in addition to the refusal of the defendant to provide for complainant, a series of acts of physical violence upon the part of defendant which compelled complainant to leave defendant’s home for her personal safety; and also sets forth, in further justification of her conduct in leaving her husband’s home, instances of criminal conduct on the part of defendant with women, and especially with one Minnie L.…