Freeman v. Freeman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Libel, filed in the Superior Court on August 23, 1919, for a divorce on the ground that the libellee had been guilty of cruel and abusive treatment of the libellant.
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Libel, filed in the Superior Court on August 23, 1919, for a divorce on the ground that the libellee had been guilty of cruel and abusive treatment of the libellant. The answer, besides denying the allegation of cruel and abusive treatment, alleged condonation by the libellant, and, in paragraphs numbered nine, ten and (by amendment) eleven, that the libellee’s conduct toward his wife, and whatever statements, oral or written, had at any time been made by him about her, had in all instances been fully justified by facts or information in his possession, and by his motive and purpose at the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The exceptions recite that the parties were married on January 14,1903, and thereafter lived together in this Commonwealth until July 31, 1919, when “the libellant left the libellee for good,” and on August 23,1919, brought a libel for divorce charging her husband with cruel and abusive treatment, and asking for the care and custody of the four surviving minor children born of the marriage. A decree nisi having been ordered with custody of the children, the case is before us on exceptions of the libellee to the refusal of the judge to" rule that the evidence did not warrant a decree or a…
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