Griner v. Griner

The plaintiff Margaret A. Griner filed suit for separate maintenance and the defendant Henry A. Griner counterclaimed for Divorce. After trial the circuit court gave judgment for separate maintenance to the plaintiff wife and denied the husband’s counterclaim for divorce. The husband appeals contending that the court erred in excluding evidence of a settlement agreement between the parties and that the judgment denying the divorce was against the manifest weight of the evidence.

The parties were married in 1959 and lived together until April 1974. The marriage began to deteriorate in October…