Thompson v. Thompson

McKiNNEY, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

This was a bill for divorce, by tbe wife, on the ground of her husband’s ill treatment and threatened violence. Before an answer was filed by the husband, the complainant caused her suit to be dismissed, and furnished the money to pay the costs. In her written order to the clerk, directing the dismissal of her bill, she says, she “ thought it best to pursue this course, inasmuch as there are some statements made in the bill contrary to my understanding, and different from what was intended.”

At the ensuing term of the Chancery Court, and after…