Shutt v. Shutt
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. This appeal was taken from a^decree of the Court helow, (Wright, J.,) granting a divorce a mensa et thoro to the complainant, Augustus L. Shutt, from the defendant, Martha A. Shutt, and from the order refusing her permanent alimony. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
The bill in this case was filed by a husband against his wife for a divorce. The prayer of the bill is for a decree a vinculo matrimonii, but there is no ground shown for any such decree, and the Court below only decreed a divorce a mensa et thoro, which the wife resists, and the husband seeks to maintain.
The bill charges cruelty of treatment and habitual drunkenness by the wife, as the 'grounds for divorce; and while some of the allegations of the bill are over-stated, and others given undue color, the proof shows a case of matrimonial infelicity that is truly deplorable. The case is an…
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