Gardner v. Gardner

Tbis is a bill for divorce preferred in the Chancery Court of Weakley County, in which Susan Gardner seeks a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony upon the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, on the part of her husband. The specifications of the bill are that the defendant is a man of inordinate lust, and by threats has compelled complainant to submit to abnormal sexual intercourse. Complainant alleges that she is a delicate woman, and this fact was known to defendant at the time of their marriage, and that her health has been seriously impaired by said cruel and inhuman treatment. That…