Amberson v. Amberson

This was a bill in the superior court of Cook county for separate maintenance by the wife, Nellie Amberson, alleging that she was living separate and apart from her husband, Henry R. Amberson, without fault on her part, and that he had left her without cause and was keeping company with another woman. The answer of the husband denied all the charges of the bill. In addition the husband filed a cross-bill praying for divorce, in which he charged that his wife had a violent temper, was guilty of great abuse and personal violence against him and had repeatedly threatened to take his life, and he…