Finley v. Finley

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill for alimony, upon the charge of “cruel, inhuman and barbarous treatment” of the wife by the husband.

The defendant denies positively, the material allegations of the bill.

The Chancellor, upon the hearing, decreed an allowance to the wife of one hundred dollars per annum, and the husband has appealed to this Court.

We do not think that either by the canon law, which has been adopted as the law of England, on this subject, or by the statute, that a case was made out to justify the decree of the Chancellor.

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