Bartow v. Bartow

The plaintiff and the defendant were married in 1919. In 1927, plaintiff filed complaint for divorce on the ground of cruelty. Defendant countered with a cross-complaint, on the same ground. Upon trial, the court found that each had been guilty of cruelty towards the other. The court further found and decreed that defendant was entitled to seventy-five dollars a month alimony for six months and fifty dollars a month thereafter “until the further order of the court.” (Plaintiff was then making one hundred eighty dollars a month.) March 2, 1932, the superior court, assuming to exercise the…