Calise v. Calise

This is a husband’s petition for a divorce from bed and board, alleging extreme cruelty as the ground therefor. Thereafter the respondent wife brought a cross petition for an absolute -divorce, alleging extreme cruelty, gross -misconduct, and desertion. When the cause opened for hearing before a justice of the family court, the petitioner’s oral motion to discontinue his petition was denied upon objection thereto by the respondent. After the hearing was -concluded, the court entered a decision denying the petition of the husband and granting the cross petition of the wife on the ground of…