Burt v. Burt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The first case was a libel for divorce, brought by the husband against the wife, for causes stated in the opinion. The SECOND CASE was an appeal by the husband from the Probate Court, on the petition of the wife for separate support and maintenance. The third case was a libel for divorce brought by the wife against the husband, for the causes of adultery, cruel and abusive treatment, and a failure to provide suitable maintenance.
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The first case was a libel for divorce, brought by the husband against the wife, for causes stated in the opinion. The SECOND CASE was an appeal by the husband from the Probate Court, on the petition of the wife for separate support and maintenance. The third case was a libel for divorce brought by the wife against the husband, for the causes of adultery, cruel and abusive treatment, and a failure to provide suitable maintenance. Trial in the Superior Court, before Braley, J., who ordered a decree nisi for the husband in the first case, and dismissed the petition for separate support in the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The libel in the first case is brought under the St. of 1889, c. 447, which was approved on June 7, 1889, and, under the Pub. Sts. c. 3, § 1, took effect on the thirtieth day next after the day of approval. It reads as follows: “ A divorce from the bond of matrimony may be decreed for gross and confirmed drunkenness caused by the voluntary and excessive use of opium or other drugs.” This act was probably passed to supplement the provision in the Pub. Sts. c. 146, § 1, where, among other causes of divorce, is mentioned “gross and confirmed habits of intoxication.” It was held in Commonwealth…
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