Berg v. Berg

Plaintiff sought a decree of separation from the defendant, based upon allegations (1) of cruel and inhuman treatment and conduct and (2) that the defendant failed to furnish suitable support for her. The defendant counterclaimed for a separation upon the ground that, without cause, plaintiff abandoned him.

The parties were married in 1935 when the plaintiff was thirty-six and the defendant fifty-one years of age. Each of them' had three children. Plaintiff had divorced her first husband. Defendant had been a widower for some years. He was an architect with a diminished income. So the parties…