White v. . White
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action for divorce a mensa et thoro tried at December Special Term, 1880, of Lenoir Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendant appeals from the judgment below.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff, who married the defendant-in 1867, she being then about thirty, and her husband sixty-three years of age, commenced her action on April 29th, 1875, for divorce from bed and board, and, besides general charges of brutal treatment, assigns as the special grounds of her application three separate acts of violence suffered at his hands. She alleges :
1. That on the 1st day of January, 1872, he struck her at their residence on the head with a piece of iron about one and a half feet long, causing bruises and swelling which lasted for a week.
2. That in August of the next year at their…
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