Berman v. Berman

ROBERTS, Justice.

We here review on appeal a decree entered in a suit for divorce filed by the appellant husband against the appellee wife. Insofar as here pertinent, the facts are that the husband’s complaint sought a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and habitual indulgence in a violent and ungovernable temper and also prayed for modification of the support provisions ($125 per week) of a New York judgment of separation from bed and board entered in an action brought by the wife against the husband. The wife answered, denying the allegations of the complaint and pleading res judicata…