Hale v. Hale

Litz, Judge:

The defendant appeals from a decree of the circuit court, granting the plaintiff a divorce from bed and board, $3,000.00 attorneys’ fees, and $200.00 per month alimony until the further order of the court.

The plaintiff and defendant were intermarried November 1st, 1901, and thereafter lived together as man and wife at the home of his mother in the city of Bluefield, West Virginia, until 1918. On account of alleged mistreatment by the wife of George Hale, a brother of the defendant and who also resided at the old home, the plaintiff went to her father’s (a few hundred yards…