Messenger v. Messenger
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. I. In Jan. 1868, the defendant had taken the plaintiff to the house of Mr. Bliss at Nokomis, 111., and that had become their home. On the 28th of Jan., of that year, he willfully and intentionally deserted her there. Her friends, the Blisses, gave her there a home, comfort, sympathy and'assistance.
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Appeal from, St. Louis Circuit Court. I. In Jan. 1868, the defendant had taken the plaintiff to the house of Mr. Bliss at Nokomis, 111., and that had become their home. On the 28th of Jan., of that year, he willfully and intentionally deserted her there. Her friends, the Blisses, gave her there a home, comfort, sympathy and'assistance. She was then enciente, and they assured her not' only of a home, •but of their assistance and protection during the trying period of her coming perils of child bearing. Defendant was then, and continued to be, for months after-wards, destitute of means and had…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
This is a suit for a divorce, instituted in February, 1872, by the wife against the husband, on the.grounds of desertion, without a reasonable cause, for the space of one year, and of such cruel and barbarous treatment, on the part of her husband, as to endanger her life; and, for the further cause, that the defendant had offered such indignities to helas rendered her condition intolerable.
The defendant denied all the allegations of the petition, and, asserting that his wife had deserted him, asks for a divorce on this ground.
*334The circuit court refused to grant either party a divorce, and the…
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