Holyoke v. Holyoke
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On EXCEPTIONS to the ruling of the justice presiding in .-sustaining a demurrer to the following libel for divorce [omitting formal part] : "That he always conducted himself as a faithful, chaste and affectionate husband, but that the said [libellee,] wholly regardless of her marriage vows and obligations, has been guilty of cruel and abusive treatment of him in this : that between the 1st of January, 1885, and the date of this libel, almost daily, when he was at home, she…
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On EXCEPTIONS to the ruling of the justice presiding in .-sustaining a demurrer to the following libel for divorce [omitting formal part] : "That he always conducted himself as a faithful, chaste and affectionate husband, but that the said [libellee,] wholly regardless of her marriage vows and obligations, has been guilty of cruel and abusive treatment of him in this : that between the 1st of January, 1885, and the date of this libel, almost daily, when he was at home, she would continually and incessantly charge him with want of chastity, with different women and at different times, all of…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
The General Court of Massachusetts, by act of March 16, 1786, § 3, enacted, "that divorce from bed and board may and shall be granted for the cause of extreme cruelty in either of the parties.” To this act was added by act of 1810, c. 119, two other causes for divorce, utter desertion, and the witholding of support from the wife.
The legislature of Maine, by act of February 10, 1821, Smith’s laws, vol. 1. c. 71, § 3, enacted the Massachusetts statute, " that divorce from bed and board may and shall be granted for the cause of extreme cruelty in either of the parties, or whenever any husband…
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