Losee v. Losee

McFADDEN, Chief Justice.

Betty Losee, the plaintiff-respondent, by her complaint sought a decree for separate maintenance, based on the alleged extreme cruelty by her husband Elgin Losee, the defendant-appellant. In his answer to the Complaint appellant denied the allegations of extreme cruelty and counterclaimed for a divorce on the grounds of his wife’s mental cruelty towards him, which allegations Mrs. Losee denied. The cause went to trial on the issues so framed.

During the course of the trial, the respondent amended her complaint, asking for a divorce on the grounds of the extreme cruelty,…