Lyons v. Lyons

It is understatement to describe the events leading to this divorce as tempestuous. Plaintiff wife shot defendant husband and was serving a term in women’s prison for this breach of marital etiquette when the case was tried. There was testimony that defendant husband had on several occasions pursued his wife with knife or razor, although he had failed to wound her. The court granted each party an interlocutory decree on the ground of the other’s cruelty. Husband appeals but, understandably, expressly excludes therefrom the portions of the decree granting divorce.

After memorandum decision in…