Ricketts v. Ricketts
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from'the Equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill in, this cause, was filed by the appellee against the appellant, on the 28th October 1843, for a divorce a mensa et thoro, and alimony.
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Appeal from'the Equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill in, this cause, was filed by the appellee against the appellant, on the 28th October 1843, for a divorce a mensa et thoro, and alimony. It alleged their marriage in 1812, the faithful conduct of the complainant; that her husband “hath for many years treated her with the grossest unkindness, insulting her with the falsest and most opprobious allegations and epithets, defaming her to others, and sometimes proceeding to assaults and blows upon her person; that he indulges in periodical excesses of intemperance, during which his…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
In this case, a bill was instituted by the appellee, under the act of Assembly of 1841, chap. 262, for a divorce a mensa et tkoro from her husband, the appellant, and for alimony j on the ground, that she was cruelly treated by her husband.
*109The third section of the act of Assembly, conferring upon the chancellor and the county courts, as courts of equity, jurisdiction over divorces, declares: “ That upon such petitions as aforesaid, divorces, a mensa et ¿¡toro, may be decreed, for the following causes : first, cruelty of treatment; secondly, excessively vicious conduct, abandonment, and…
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