Middleton v. Middleton

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Loreto, J.), dissolving the marriage between the parties solely “ because of the cruel and inhuman treatment of the defendant against the plaintiff ”.

The record discloses the following: The plaintiff husband and defendant wife were married in Savannah, Georgia, in 1935; the plaintiff husband was communicably diseased on the day he stood as a bridegroom; she too became infected, requiring heroic treatments; nevertheless, she stuck by him and supported him during his many and lengthy illnesses. In 1943, she came to New York…