Case ID: ny_241/html/0612-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ruth Belden, Appellant, v. Daniel S. Belden, Respondent.
    
      Husband and wife — separation — insufficient proof of cruel and inhuman treatment or of abandonment.
    
    
      Belden v. Belden, 207 App. Div. 545, affirmed.
    (Argued December 10, 1925;
    decided January 12, 1926.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered February 26, 1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action, wife against husband; was for a separation upon the grounds of cruel and inhuman conduct and abandonment. The Appellate Division found that the defendant was not guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment of the plaintiff; that there was no conduct on the part of the defendant toward the plaintiff ifuch as to render it unsafe and improper for the former to cohabit with the latter; that the defendant did not abandon the plaintiff; and that there was no neglect or refusal of the defendant to provide for the plaintiff.
    
      Glenn F. Carter for appellant.
    
      Hubert L. Brown and Minnie L. Seeley for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, without costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.