MacPherson v. MacPherson

The parties separated after eleven years. They have one child. During most of the time the wife worked to support herself. The husband, shortly before the separation, assaulted her twice, and ordered her from the home repeatedly, almost daily during the last year, and twitted her because she had not gone, until she finally left in 1919. Since that time he has not supported her or the child, nor has he visited the child or seen the mother except on two occasions, once when he offered to go back to housekeeping if she would take in boarders, which she very properly rejected, and at which time…