Mathewson v. Mathewson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition eor Divorce, on the grounds of intolerable severity and refusal to support. Trial at the June Term, 1907, Caledonia County, Miles, J., presiding. Divorce granted for intolerable severity, with an allowance of $1,150 alimony. The petitionee excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Petition eor Divorce, on the grounds of intolerable severity and refusal to support. Trial at the June Term, 1907, Caledonia County, Miles, J., presiding. Divorce granted for intolerable severity, with an allowance of $1,150 alimony. The petitionee excepted. The opinion states the case. It is the settled rule in England that to constitute such cruelty as would justify the court in decreeing a divorce, there must be either actual violence committed, attended with danger to life, limb, or health, or there must be reasonable apprehension of such violence. Evans v. Evans, 4 Eng. Ene. 310; Holden…
1Opinion of the CourtBowell, C. J.
A divorce from the bond of matrimony was decreed in this case for “intolerable severity.” The treatment found is, in substance, not any personal violence, but that the libellee repeatedly accused his wife of adultery with two certain men, which accusations were sometimes made when he and his wife were alone, sometimes when others were present, especially their adopted son, who was sixteen or seventeen years old, and sometimes to others when his wife was not present, and that he had used harsh and abusive language to her, and called her vile names. It is found that there was no probable nor…
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