Mountford v. Mountford

Backes, V. C.

Less than four months after they were married the petitioner left her husband. The master in recommending against a divorce reported, “that no adequate evidence has been produced before me to establish the fact that she left because of conduct on the part of the defendant which would have entitled her to a divorce from bed and board at the time of her leaving; and I therefore find and report that her leaving was voluntary on her part.”

I do not feel called upon to agree or disagree with the master that a ease of extreme cruelty is not made out, other than to observe that the…