Nemeth v. Nemeth
New Jersey Court of Chancery
1Opinion of the Court
The bill is for maintenance based on constructive abandonment and refusal to support. The charge is extreme cruelty. This was the defendant's third marriage, the complainant's first. He is beyond middle age, she is approaching it. She is partly blind of cataracts. They were married in 1925, in New York, and lived in the outskirts a few months when the defendant, conceiving that he had made a bad bargain, persuaded his wife to agree to a divorce for a consideration, and to obtain it sought to compromise her, and failing drove her from his home, it is claimed. Later the wife brought an action…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brown v. BrownNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1913
3Cited by2 opinions
- Telis v. TelisSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1942
- Demchak v. KingsleyNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1966