Lawrence v. Lawrence

RALPH B. MAXWELL, District Judge.

The prolonged record in this divorce case reaches back to September of 1961 when the plaintiff B. L. Lawrence initiated proceedings to terminate his marriage with the defendant. In her answer and counterclaim the defendant wife denied any misconduct and asserted her own cause of action for divorce against the plaintiff.

After the case was heard in early 1962, the court granted a divorce to the defendant wife. Among other things, the court found that the husband had physically beaten defendant; that he had openly kept company with other women; that he had given…