Bilger v. Bilger

The respondent and the appellant brought separate actions for divorce. The complaints were filed on the same day. Appellant, the wife, charged extreme cruelty, and subsequently amended her complaint by adding a second cause of action charging wilful neglect. The husband also charged extreme cruelty, and in the wife’s action filed a cross-complaint charging cruelty. The cross-complaint was afterwards dismissed, the two actions were, consolidated for trial, and it was agreed that the wife’s answer to the husband’s cross-complaint should constitute her answer to the husband’s original complaint.…