Osten v. Osten

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The appellee here instituted action for divorce in September of 1933, charging that while they were married in Versailles in 1931, they had never thereafter lived together as man and wife. Technically he charged abandonment. In an amended pleading he added to this statutory ground the charge of cruel and inhuman treatment on the part of the wife, and further that the marriage was brought about by fraud, deceit and duress on the part of appellant.

•Appellant filed answer and counterclaim, first denying the allegations of the petition, and…