Merritt v. Merritt

Opinion by

Judge Hardin :

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Louisville chancery-court refusing to grant to the appellant, Mary Sophia Merritt, a divorce a viñado from her husband, Samuel W. Merritt, and dismissing her petition in which she sought that relief, substantially and mainly on the alleged ground that shortly after marriage with appellee, which occurred' in July, 1869, and during their residence and cohabitancy in the city of Louisville, he was, without fault on her part, guilty of such acts of cruelty to her, by striking, beating, and injuring, or attempting to injure her, as…