Burns v. Burns

This case was heard by a justice of the Superior Court on petition and cross-petition for divorce. Said justice denied and dismissed the respondent’s cross-petition and granted the original petition for divorce from bed and board upon the ground of neglect to provide. The case is before us on respondent’s exception to the ruling denying and dismissing said cross-petition and to the rulings granting the original petition and awarding an allowance for separate maintenance.

The parties were married in 1904 and lived together as man and wife until 1922 when the wife left the home and filed a…