Case ID: wright_1/html/0482-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BY THE COURT.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THOMAS F. THOMPSON v. MARGARET THOMPSON.
    D ivorce — wilful absence — qu arrel.
    Where the husband and wife quarrel, and on Sunday he gets the hymn book to sing, and she lakes it from him and throws herself on the bed and keeps it till he gets lonesome, lifts her up and'pours water over her. and she then leaves him and continues absent more than three years, reiusing to return, they may be divorced.
    Divorce. Cause, wilful absence. The parties married about five years since, and lived together three months. They disagi-eed. One Sunday, they went to church together. Her father and brothers were there, and when the service closed she went home with them, refusing to go with her husband. On the way, he tried to speak to her, but was prevented by the brothers. The next morning her father and brothers went to petitioner’s house, and brought away all the plunder she took there when they were married. Mutual complaints followed this step at law. She swore against him that he abused her, and tramped on her feet. He, that when he trod on her toes, she was aggravating him, and that one Sunday he wanted the hymn book to sing, when she took it and went and threw herself on the bed and kept it from him; he soon became lonesome, and lifted her off the bed and poured water upon her to wake her up. He appeared always anxious to make up and to live with her, but she refused, and has continued absent more than three years.
   BY THE COURT.

Let them be divorced.