Greene v. Greene

Plaintiff husband filed a bill of complaint for divorce alleging defendant wife had been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty, and defendant wife filed a cross-bill asking for separate maintenance also alleging that her husband had been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty.

At the time of trial the parties had been married 31 years and had 3 grown children, ages 30, 28, and 26.

Appellee-husband testified that his wife called him “a monster” and “stupid”; that she stated she hated him and wouldn’t eat her meals in his presence and didn’t want to breathe the same air he did; that she threw…