Ressor v. Ressor

Appellant filed her bill against appellee to procure a divorce, and charged extreme and repeated cruelty, drunkenness and adultery. The defendant having failed to answer, the bill was taken as confessed, and a decree of divorce was rendered, and, at a subsequent time, the question of alimony was heard, when the court found and decreed that defendant pay to complainant $350 yearly, in semi-annual payments. Complainant brings the case to this court on appeal, and asks a reversal, because the amount allowed is too small.

It appears that the parties were married and lived together for thirty-seven…