Hayden v. Hayden

Opinion of the Court ,by

Chief Justice Miller

Reversing.

The appellant, Agnes Hayden, and the appellee, Sidney L. Hayden, were married in 1907. She was fourteen and he was twenty-three years of age.

*570They separated in Angnst, 1914, and she shortly thereafter brought this action for a divorce, upon the ground of cruel treatment, and further asking that she be given the custody of her two children, aged five and three years, respectively.

The circuit .court dismissed the plaintiff’s petition, and she appeals., . .

She testified that every time her husband would get mad-, he would slap and choke her,…