Matlock v. Matlock

This is a suit to dissolve a marriage contract. Plaintiff initiated the proceedings, assigning as a reason, cruel and inhuman treatment on the part of the defendant. The attack of plaintiff was met by an answer containing general denials and a cross-complaint alleging inhuman conduct by plaintiff. The parties intermarried at the City of Eugene April 30, 1912, plaintiff then being 73 and defendant 54 years of age. They lived together about 9% months. The record of their brief matrimonial venture is crowded with alternating sunshine and shadow, and a recapitulation thereof would serve no…