Fouquier v. Fouquier

MOISE, Justice.

Plaintiff-wife filed suit against her husband for a separation of bed and board on the grounds of cruelty, and the defendant-husband reconvened and asked for a like judgment on the same grounds. Defendant appeals from a judgment rendered in plaintiff’s favor.

The parties lived together for twenty-two years, and there was no issue of the marriage.

The wife devoted herself to managing and supervising a grocery store and later a bakery, in which they were mutually engaged. She handled all the money from these businesses, and being a shrewd woman and a good manager she amassed a…