Deenis v. Deenis

This bill was filed for relief under the following provision of the statute:

“ Married women who, without their fault, now live or hereafter may live separate and apart from their husbands, may have their remedy in equity in their own names respectively, against their said husbands, for a reasonable support and maintenance, while they so live or have so lived separate and apart.” Laws 1867, 132.

The bill alleges that the parties were married in 1843; that several children, sons and daughters, were the issue of the marriage; that for sixteen years of their married life the wife had no grievous…