Miller v. Miller
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition for a divorce. Trial by court at tbe December Term, 1913, Orange County, Butter, J., presiding. On the facts found by the court, the libellee moved to dismiss the petition for want of jurisdiction. Motion overruled, and bill granted for intolerable severity, with order for alimony and giving the libellant the custody of her minor child. The libellee excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, C. J.
These parties were married at Chicago in the fall of 1911, and came at once to Newbury, Vt. to reside. They lived together there on a farm owned by the libellee and his brother until May, 1912, when, on account of the husband’s cruel treatment, the libellant was compelled to leave him. She went back once for a reconciliation, but was in effect turned away by him and forbidden to return. She then went back .to Chicago, and did not intend to return to Vermont unless her husband came for and requested her to do so. This he never did, though there was some correspondence between them looking…
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