Dicken v. Dicken
Supreme Court of Georgia
Divorce. Alimony. Decided by Judge Gkeen. Spalding Superior Court. February Term, 1869. Mrs. Dicken sued her said husband for divorce upon the ground of cruel treatment.
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Divorce. Alimony. Decided by Judge Gkeen. Spalding Superior Court. February Term, 1869. Mrs. Dicken sued her said husband for divorce upon the ground of cruel treatment. The charge was, that on the 27th of August, 1868, he “layed violent hands upon” her and “cruelly treated and violently used her without any cause whateverthat on said day, and other days, he “ did resort to all kinds of means and devices to harrass, alarm and punish ” her “ using, at various times, violent threats, and pretending, at other times, to be deranged, and would act, in her presence and about the house, as a…
1Opinion of the CourtBuowx, C. J.
It is not the purpose of this Court to enter into a discussion of the merits of the unfortunate difficulties which have resulted in the separation of the parties to this record. Doubtless the heavy losses which they sustained by the war, had much to do in producing the state of mental disquietude and irritability which led to the separation. From the possession of what, in the section of country where they lived, might be termed wealth, they were reduced in their estate, till they must labor in their old age for a living, much less comfortable than they formerly enjoyed without the necessity…
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