Dresser v. Dresser

WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of divorce in favor of the wife against the husband on the ground of cruel and abusive treatment. The appeal is sustained.

In reviewing the record, we have in mind the familiar principle that the findings of fact of a Justice sitting without a jury stand unless clearly erroneous. M.R. C.P. Rule 52(a); Gruber v. Gruber, 161 Me. 289, 211 A.2d 583.

The parties were married in 1961 and have two children. The first knowledge that the wife sought a divorce was when she caused the summons to be served upon her husband at their home in June…