Avdoyan v. Avdoyan

The action is by plaintiff for a separation on the ground that defendant without just cause had abandoned her and failed to provide adequate support. After a trial a judgment of separation was granted to defendant upon his counterclaim grounded upon the charge that the conduct of plaintiff toward defendant constituted cruel and inhuman treatment and rendered it unsafe and improper for defendant to cohabit with plaintiff and justified his leaving her.

The parties were married on October 22, 1939. Plaintiff was then thirty-four years of age and defendant was sixty-one. Bach had been previously…