Bailey v. Bailey
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Van Burén; Buck, J. Bill by Sina Bailey against William Bailey for a divorce. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. From a decree of divorce and for permanent alimony of $775, defendant appeals. The bill charges extreme cruelty, failure to support, and adultery. The last charge failed for want of proof. The court granted a divorce on the other two grounds.
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Appeal from Van Burén; Buck, J. Bill by Sina Bailey against William Bailey for a divorce. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. From a decree of divorce and for permanent alimony of $775, defendant appeals. The bill charges extreme cruelty, failure to support, and adultery. The last charge failed for want of proof. The court granted a divorce on the other two grounds. The parties were married March 5, 1880, and have one child, a boy, 15 years old when this bill was filed, October 23, 1897. He owned 40 acres of land adjoining her father’s homestead. He had nothing but this land.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the factsj dissenting). 1. We cannot concur in the conclusion reached by the circuit judge that defendant failed to support his wife in a manner commensurate with his means. It is fully established that she had at one store, at least, authority to purchase what she wanted on her husband’s credit, and that she did so. This is virtually admitted by her. Several bills of goods, purchased at other places, were introduced, and they show the purchase of such things as are common in such a family. Much stress is laid upon the *238fact that he did not always furnish sufficient wood for…
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