Poirier v. Poirier

This is an appeal from a divorce decree entered in the Family Court.

On February 14, 1968, Paul Raymond Poirer filed in the Family Court of Providence County a petition for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty against his wife Nancy Elizabeth Poirier. The parties had been married since February 18, 1967.

On February 23, 1968, respondent filed a cross-petition thereto alleging that she had demeaned herself as a faithful wife and performed all the obligations of the marriage covenant. She denied that she had been guilty of extreme cruelty as alleged in her husband’s divorce petition and went…