Shook v. Shook

The parties married at leisure and repented in haste. The defendant was a widower of 56 years, when married in June 1898, and of avoirdupois 105 pounds; '-the plaintiff was 36 years his junior — 20 years old — at that time, and 50 pounds heavier. They had courted 4 years, but lived together as husband and wife less than 6 months. He;had 460 acres of'unincumbered land; she had youth, and, it is said, beauty as well. He was industrious, but unlearned; she could read and sing. Both were accomplished in this: they knew how to work. Though reared in town, she accommodated herself;to the new…