Blades v. Blades

This is an appeal from a decree granting the husband a divorce a vinculo and dismissing the wife’s cross-bill for alimony. The bill charged adultery, the cross-bill abandonment and adultery. The transcript comprises 2700 pages, the appendices 900. Much of the 900 pages relates to the wife’s charges of adultery, which have been abandoned at the argument. More is irrelevant or repetitious.

The parties were married in 1918 and lived together happily for twenty-five years. Three children and a foster child are all of age, married and no longer at home. From 1919 to 1943 the couple lived, and the…