Bryant v. Bryant

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This appeal concerns the amount of alimony awarded the wife when the husband, the appellant, got the divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment stemming from his wife’s intense jealousy. He was fifty-one and she forty-nine years of age when their childless marriage of twenty-seven years was dissolved. There was no marital infidelity involved on the part of either, but she constantly accused him of it.

The husband was a steelworker whose taxable income before deduction for exemptions was approximately $6,000 in 1967; he netted about $125 a week. The master commissioner…