Faller v. Faller

This is an action for divorce. The petition sets out that the plaintiff was married to the defendant nearly twenty-six years ago. “ That soon after said, marriage the defendant commenced treating her and did treat her with extreme cruelty and inhumanity; that on various occasions he has struck and kicked her in anger and with great violence, thereby endangering her life. That he has refused to supply her with the *145necessaries of life, and still refuses to supply her with them, when it was and is in his power to supply her with them.

These general charges bring the case, as is claimed, within…