Reddington v. Reddington

This is a libel for divorce for alleged cruel and abusive treatment. The answer contained an allegation that the libellant “has spent a great deal of time in the company of a certain man . . . and has been on terms of intimacy with said man,” whose., name was subsequently-inserted in the answer by amendment. See Newman v. Newman, 211 Mass. 508; Sanderson v. Sanderson, 271 Mass. 386; Costa v. Costa, 295 Mass. 556; G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 208, §§ 9, 10, 11, as amended by St. 1943, c. 196. The answer did not charge adultery.

The judge found in substance that the libellee struck the libellant while…