Hitchins v. Hitchins

Appellant filed his bill for divorce in the court below, alleging that he was married to appellee in Maryland in the year 1857, and there with her lived until 1884, when he ceased living with her in consequence of her ill treatment of him.

The testimony of the parties and many persons (mostly residents of Maryland) was taken, from which it appeared that appellant had been, during his residence in Maryland, a man of high character, a prosperous merchant, and is the father of grown-up children whose sympathies in this controversy are with him instead'of with their mother. It also appeared that…