Jordan v. Jordan

The complainant on the 3d day of November, 1882, filed her bill of complaint against her husband, the defendant, in the Lenawee circuit court, to obtain a decree of divorce, alleging as grounds therefor cruel treatment and drunkenness and neglect to properly support complainant and her children. The defendant made and filed his answer thereto, denying the material grounds for divorce charged in the bill, and the issue is now completed by the filing of the general replication. Proofs were taken before a circuit court commissioner, and on the 1st day of December, 1882, a decree of divorce was…