McAllester v. McAllester

This case was commenced as a divorce action in the Chancery Court of Hamilton County. Mrs. McAllester charged her husband with cruel and inhuman treatment and also charged that he had failed to support her. In connection with the latter charge she says that the defendant had not contributed to her support, or the support of their children, during their forty-one years of marriage. Her charges of cruel and inhuman treatment were that her husband had been ugly and abusive and on many occasions had threatened'both Mrs. McAllester and their children with serious bodily harm.

After hearing the…