Broderick v. Broderick

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment rejecting his demand for a decree of separation from bed and board. He alleges in his petition that his wife was guilty of habitual intemperance and of cruel treatment and outrages towards him, and that her habitual intemperance and ill-treatment of him were of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable. The wife, answering the suit, denied the accusations, and set up a re-conventional demand for a decree of separation from bed and board on the ground of cruel treatment on the part of her husband. The judge…