Lyle v. Lyle
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MONTGOMERY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Montgomery County. G-eo. E. Seay, Ch- Bill for divorce, alimony, and custody of child, brought by the wife against her husband, charging cruel and, inhuman treatment, and such indignities to her person as rendered her condition intolerable. Complainant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Baxter Smith, Sp. J.
On the 29th of May, 1882, the complainant filed a bill in the Chancery Court of Montgomery County against the defendant, praying to be divorced from the bonds of matrimony subsisting between her and the defendant, that alimony out of his estate be decreed her, and that she be allowed to retain the custody of their then only child, a boy of four or five years of age. The cause came on for hearing before the Chancellor on the 5th of October, 1883, who dismissed the bill, from which decree the complainant appealed to this Court.
Upon a healing before the Court of Referees, a…
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