Hitchcox v. Hitchcox
West Virginia Supreme Court
A. V. Hitchcox, who alleged tliat she was the wife of Waldo P. Hitchcox, tiled her bill in the circuit court of Ritchie county, in March, 1866, by M. P. Amiss, her next friend.
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A. V. Hitchcox, who alleged tliat she was the wife of Waldo P. Hitchcox, tiled her bill in the circuit court of Ritchie county, in March, 1866, by M. P. Amiss, her next friend. The hill alleged that the complainant was married to the defendant in 1862; that he was negligent, intemperate in drinking ardent spirits, and abusive and violent to her, frequently heating her and threatening her with great bodily hurt, until she was obliged, in order to preserve her life, to flee from him and seek refuge: that she had so fled from, him in 1865, and had not lived with him since; that she had a dower…
1Opinion of the Court
Bfown, President.
This was a bill for a divorce a mensa c.t thoro, and for alimony. The bill avers the marriage and the answer expressly states the marriage also. One witness in his deposition says: “ I am acquainted with Waldo P. Hitchcox, and also A. Y. Hitchcox, his wife. She came to my house, and he came there, and after abusing her, he took a fork up off the table and swore he intended to spill blood with it, following the complainant, she begging him not to hurt her. Last fall she came to my house with her daughter and said her husband had driven her off and intended to kill her.” In…
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