Phelps v. Phelps

BOUR, C.

This action for divorce was brought in the circuit court of Putnam County by the wife. In her petition plaintiff relied upon alleged intolerable indignities as grounds for divorce. Defendant’s answer admitted that he was married to plaintiff on March 4,1947, and that they lived together as husband and wife from said date until on or about March 5, 1949, but denied all other allegations in plaintiff’s petition. Further answering by way of cross-petition, defendant charged that plaintiff had subjected him to intolerable indignities; and as a separate ground for divorce, he alleged that…