Langdon v. Langdon

Redfield, Ch. J.

This is a petition for divorce, on the ground of intolerable severity. The important question in the case is, whether the conduct of the defendant, towards the libellant, since a former separation and subsequent compromise, has been such as to revive whatever previous ground of complaint might have existed against the defendant, For it is obvious, that unless the defendant can shield himself from his severity towards his wife, under this compromise and condonation, he cannot expect successfully to defend this proceeding. Indeed that is not claimed. But, it is said the…