Burroughs v. Burroughs

BARBER, Acting Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing the appellant’s bill of complaint, asking for a legal separation from bed and board on the ground of cruelty. The bill also prayed for alimony and suit money, including counsel fees.

This case was heard below and here together with No. 4097, in which the defendant, the husband, brought 'his cross-bill, praying for the annulment of the marriage between the parties on the ground that the wife before marriage “did knowingly, purposely, willfully, and fraudulently pretend…