Stone v. Stone

The plaintiff and the defendant were married March 2, 1880, and this action is for a divorce on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The treatment alleged consisted, in effect, in being required and compelled by the defendant, during all their married life, to do and to perform, in addition to her domestic work, heavy manual labor in the fields, in doing all kinds of farm work, far beyond her strength, until she became broken down in health, sick, and unable to do the domestic or house work, which she was required by the defendant to do; that for several years such treatment had been…