Bedell v. Bedell
New York Court of Chancery
BILL filed by the wife against the husband for a divorce from bed and board, for cruel usage, and, also, for a maintenance, out of the husband’s estate, for herself and child. It charged that the parties were married in 1807, and between that time and November, 1813, when the plaintiff abandoned him, the defendant was in the habitual practice of beating her, and otherwise treating her in a cruel and inhuman manner; and many instances of cruel treatment were specified.
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BILL filed by the wife against the husband for a divorce from bed and board, for cruel usage, and, also, for a maintenance, out of the husband’s estate, for herself and child. It charged that the parties were married in 1807, and between that time and November, 1813, when the plaintiff abandoned him, the defendant was in the habitual practice of beating her, and otherwise treating her in a cruel and inhuman manner; and many instances of cruel treatment were specified. The bill charged that the defendant is addicted to intemperance; and that they have one child, a girl, 6 ■ years of age. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Here is enough shown and admitted to justify and require a separation of the parties. But as it is alleged that the defendant is reformed, as to his intemperance, and as the parties are young, it is possible that a temporary separation will be sufficient for correction and admonition. I shall give them an opportunity, at a distant period, of re-entering into their duties, and of seeking for mutual consolation and happiness in conjugal life. The statute authorizes a decree of divorce from bed and board, for unkind treatment, to be for ever, or only for a limited time. The charge…
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