Briggs v. Briggs
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Washtenaw Circuit. The complainant filed her bill against her husband for a divorce on the ground of cruelty. The defendant answered ; and issue was joined by the filing of a replication, An order was entered closing proofs; and the cause stood for hearing on bill, answer and replication.
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Appeal in Chancery from Washtenaw Circuit. The complainant filed her bill against her husband for a divorce on the ground of cruelty. The defendant answered ; and issue was joined by the filing of a replication, An order was entered closing proofs; and the cause stood for hearing on bill, answer and replication. At this stage of it, the complainant filed a petition, duly verified, for leave to amend her bill by inserting an additional specification of cruelty, of the facts in support oí which, she avers, that she had no certain knowledge, until after the filing of the bill and answer in the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
The bill of complaint in this cause was filed September 29, 1866, for the purpose of procuring a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of extreme .cruelty.
The marriage took place in Skaneateles, N. Y., where complainant then resided, in October, 1843. The defendant, at the time lived at Saline, Michigan, where he had children hy a former marriage, and to which place he at once brought his wife. The defendant was then thirty-eight years of age, or thereabouts, and the complainant thirty-three. So far as we are able to judge from the record, the marriage was an uncomfortable one…
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