Hornsby v. Hornsby

O’NIELL, Chief Justice..

This is an appeal from a judgment of separation from bed and board, granted on the ground of cruel treatment of the wife by the husband. In his answer to the suit he denied that he had treated his wife cruelly, and in the alternative pleaded that if the court should conclude that he was ever at fault in that respect his wife had forgiven and condoned the ill-treatment up to the time of her abandoning him for the purpose of bringing this suit. She claimed also the care and custody of their only child, a boy nearly eleven years of age, and claimed alimony for herself and…