Owen v. Owen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from AUamalcee District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Plain-tied asks that she be divorced from the defendant on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment endangering her life, and for alimony.
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Appeal from AUamalcee District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Plain-tied asks that she be divorced from the defendant on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment endangering her life, and for alimony. Defendant denies the allegations of cruel and inhuman treatment, and asks to be divorced from the plaintiff on the ground of desertion, and that a certain conveyance of land, executed at his instance, to the plaintiff, be •set aside, andthathe be decreed to be the absolute owner of said land. Decree was entered granting a divorce to the plaintiff, and for costs and one hundred dollars…
1Opinion of the CourtG-iven, J.
I. These parties were married November 22, 1887; plaintiff then aged twenty-seven, having been recently divorced from a former husband, and the •defendant, then aged seventy-seven, having had four wives, from three of whom he had separated, and one of whom was then living and divorced. Upon their marriage the plaintiff went to live with the defendant at his home upon the land in question, and they continued to live together until July 12, 1891, when she left him, and they have ever since lived apart. We first inquire whether the plaintiff has established her allegation of such inhuman…
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