Gillett v. Gillett

Charging extreme cruelty, George E. Gillett filed a bill of complaint against defendant, Mary Edna Gillett, for an absolute divorce. Both parties had been previously married. After a two-year courtship they had obtained divorces from their respective spouses, and on September 21,1922, shortly thereafter, were married, plaintiff at that time being 56 years of age and defendant 43. Defendant had been a trained nurse, and each owned a small amount of property. Defendant had expressed misgivings as to the permanency of their union, but accepted plaintiff’s assurances that he would remain…