In re Boylan

The appellant and Veronica Boylan were married in Rochester May 17, 1915, at which time she was nineteen years of age and the appellant was forty-nine or fifty years old. Their married life was unpleasant, and each claims to have been the victim of cruel treatment on the part of the other. Because of these unhappy disputes and differences they separated, she claiming that he disappeared in November, 1917. No children were born of this marriage. In 1928 she brought a proceeding in Rensselaer county under section 7-a of the Domestic Relations Law for dissolution of the marriage. At the hearing…