Schmidt v. Schmidt

This is an action for divorce, instituted by Vera Schmidt, against her husband, Richard Anthony Schmidt, on the grounds of cruelty.

The parties were married for twenty-one years. One daughter and one son were born of this marriage, and their ages were fifteen and thirteen years, respectively, at the commencement of this divorce action in September, 1956. Financially, the marriage was a success, the parties having accumulated an estate of the approximate value of one hundred fifty thousand to one hundred seventy thousand dollars. Their prosperity, however, was not conducive to happiness at all…