Collins v. Collins

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant is appealing from a judgment granting his wife a separation from bed and board on the ground of cruel treatment. The judgment allows the wife half of certain property and ’.funds declared to belong to the matrimonial community, and allows her $250 for her attorneys’ .fee, to be paid out of the community funds. The plaintiff, answering the appeal, asks for an increase of the allowance to $500.

The defendant, in his answer to the suit, denied that he had been cruel to his wife, and, in the alternative, pleaded that he and 'she had become reconciled after the…