Ward v. Ward

The Chancellor :

This is a bill for divorce from bed and board, and for alimony, filed on the 11th of September, 1873, and to which the defendant has appeared and answered. It comes before me upon a motion of the complainant for alimony pending the litigation. The parties have been married 29 years, and have seven living children. The ground upon which the divorce is sought, is cruel treatment, “ so cruel,” says the bill, “that his, defendant’s, conduct is no longer bearable.” The bill then undertakes to detail some of the conduct complained of. I have recently, in the case of Mary A. Horne v.…