Maxwell v. Maxwell

MilleR, Judge:

As ground for a divorce from bed and board plaintiff charges defendant, her husband, with desertion, and with cruel and inhuman treatment; but here, as in the court below, she relies on cruel and inhuman treatment.

Plaintiff is the second wife of defendant, and he is her second husband. From her first husband she obtained a divorce, and was married to defendant in 1899. He took her to his home in Wheeling, where he had been living, with his five children by his first wife, all infants. Disagreements soon began, involving the two oldest daughters, resulting finally, in 1904, in…