Craig v. Craig
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pocahontas District Gowrt.— Hon. W. B. Quarton, Judge. These two cases should have been docketed as one. They are appeals in an action for divorce brought by plaintiff against her husband, based upon cruel and inhuman treatment, and adultery said to have been committed by him. The trial court granted the relief prayed, basing it upon cruel and inhuman treatment, but denied relief on the ground of adultery. Both parties appeal.
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Appeal from Pocahontas District Gowrt.— Hon. W. B. Quarton, Judge. These two cases should have been docketed as one. They are appeals in an action for divorce brought by plaintiff against her husband, based upon cruel and inhuman treatment, and adultery said to have been committed by him. The trial court granted the relief prayed, basing it upon cruel and inhuman treatment, but denied relief on the ground of adultery. Both parties appeal. As defendant first perfected his, he will be called appellant. The two appeals will be disposed of in one opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiff and defendant- were married August 20, 1891, and as a result of this union three children were born unto them. They lived happily together until the *193latter part of the year 1902, when the defendant, who was a school director of his subdistrict, brought to his homo a young lady school-teacher, who had been employed by him to teach the school in his subdistrict. ' This young lady came into the family on Thanksgiving Day, and remained and boarded there until plaintiff left her husband on February 26, 1903, when she returned to her former home in, Nebraska. Plaintiff left the defendant…
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