Ward v. Ward

This is an appeal by the defendant from that portion of the judgment as modified which denied her separate maintenance and from the order of modification.

The plaintiff and the defendant were married in Troy, New York, on June 3, 1917. They separated about twenty years later. On July 12, 1937, the plaintiff husband commenced this action for a divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. The defendant wife answered with a general denial and filed a cross-complaint for separate maintenance. The court found that she was entitled to a decree of separate maintenance, awarded to her most of the…