Maddox v. Maddox

This is a writ of error to the Appellate Court for the Third District, seeking to reverse a judgment of that court affirming a decree of the circuit court of Macon county sustaining a demurrer to the bill of complaint of Rose Maddox. The prayer of her bill was for a divorce, on the ground of extreme and repeated cruelty. It is alleged that the parties were married in November, 1887; that they lived together until January 7, 1897; that defendant was an able-bodied, vigorous man, able to earn support for himself and his family; that, regardless of his marriage vows, he was guilty of extreme,…