Tyson v. Tyson

The parties, the one then a widow and the other a widower, were married on February 16,1931. Mrs. Tyson filed her bill for separate maintenance on October 12, 1936, alleging that defendant was guilty of certain acts of extreme cruelty, subversive of the marriage relation. Defendant denied that plaintiff was entitled to any relief but the court, after the taking of testimony, decreed that the marriage should be dissolved, from which determination neither party appeals. Mrs. Tyson, however, complains of the court’s disposition of her dower rights and its denial of alimony.

The circuit judge…