Rethers v. Rethers

This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial. Plaintiff, husband, sued for divorce on the ground of cruelty alleging residence for the required period in the city and county of San Francisco. Defendant, wife, cross-complained on the grounds of wilful desertion and ex treme cruelty and also alleged residence for the required period in the city and county of San Francisco. No evidence was presented on the husband’s complaint. At the trial of the wife’s cross-complaint both she and a son of hers by a former marriage testified to her residence in San Francisco during more than the…