Birth v. Birth

Plaintiff, Barbara Birth, sought an absolute divorce from defendant, Melvin E. Birth, together with custody of their 3-year-old daughter, an allowance for child support, and an adjustment of their financial and property rights. Plaintiff’s alleged grounds for divorce were that defendant was guilty of extreme cruelty because at all times since the marriage on August 1,. 1952, he had brutally made grossly excessive demands upon plain tiff for sexual relations which had so affected her physical and mental health as to make it impossible to continue the marriage relation. After a temporary order…