Ford v. Ford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel filed October 13, 1868, for a divorce from bed and board, the libellant alleging for cause, that the libellee had “been guilty of extreme cruelty towards her, and particularly on the 23d day of September last inflicted upon her person blows, and then and there did divers other acts of extreme cruelty, to her great injury.”
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Libel filed October 13, 1868, for a divorce from bed and board, the libellant alleging for cause, that the libellee had “been guilty of extreme cruelty towards her, and particularly on the 23d day of September last inflicted upon her person blows, and then and there did divers other acts of extreme cruelty, to her great injury.” The answer denied that the libellee had ever been undutiful of his marriage vows or obligations, or ever treated the libellant unkindly in any manner whatever either byword or deed; and alleged that, on the contrary, he had ever conducted himself in a kind,…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The libel alleges that the libellee “ has been guilty of extreme cruelty towards her, (the libellant,) and particularly on the 23d day of September last inflicted upon her person blows, and then and there did divers other acts of extreme cruelty, to her great injury.” In the ordinary language of pleading, this amounts to a specification'of the infliction of blows, on a single occasion, under such circumstances and in such a manner as to constitute extreme cruelty. The parties went to trial before the jury upon this allegation and its denial; and the libellant was permitted to offer evidence…
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