Lannon v. Lannon

This is a petition for divorce wherein the only ground alleged was extreme cruelty. The matter was heard by a justice of the superior court who thereafter granted the petition. The case is before this court on the respondent’s exception to that decision.

The parties were married on February 14, 1952. There is much conflicting evidence relating to their conduct during their married life, both petitioner and respondent adducing testimony as.to the commission of violent assaults upon each other. Three children were born of the marriage. The petitioner testified that in February 1956, after what…