Cushman v. Cushman

To a libel of the wife for divorce on the ground of adultery the husband filed an answer denying the adultery and setting up by way of recrimination previous desertion on the part of the wife. At the trial the judge found that the husband was guilty of the adultery. But as to the charge of desertion he did not find that the wife’s conduct amounted to desertion, although he did find “ that there, was on her part such unmindfulness of marital obligations as to preclude the granting of her libel,” and ordered it to be dismissed. In other words, the wife’s charge of adultery was sustained but the…