The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-12-19
MRS. LOVE JUSTIFIED
TN LEAVING HUSBAND
So Opines Judge Bond, Who Orders MIR. Love
To Pay Wife $50 a Month and Attor-
news Fees Pendente Lite

| QenCe MIS-. Ilclcll DtollC hONEI
of this city was justified M
leaving her husband, w. l..
Love, Judge w. M. Bond OF.
the Superior Court, in spe-
cial hearing in this city to-day
ordered w. T. Love to pay his
wife $3.50 month and $l5O
for attorneys fees pending her
action for divorce. Thus Mrs
Love makes the first score IN
what promises to be the liveli-
est and hardest fought divorce
action ever instituted i'll this
County.
The inquiry before Judge Bond
was not the action for divorce 1t
self, but merely an inquiry TO deter
mined whether the defendant should
nay the plaintiff alimony pcndente
lite. which means enough money TO
provide for herself and children and
pay her attorneys fees pending the
trial of the case by jury. But the
complaint and affidavits in the hear
ing before Judge Bond gave the pub
lie the complete details of the do
mcstic troubles of the Loves, and it's
wretched story.
The evidence is conclusive that
! Mr.. and Mrs. Love have led sort
of cat and dog life. Mrs. Love in
sists that her husband has been in
sulting. abusive and violent, has
hcaped insults and indignities and
cruclties upon her until her life had
become burdensOme and intolerable.
Mr.. Love contends on the other hand
that he has tried to be an affect!On-
ate husband and provide bOuntifully
for his new wife, but that she has
%bcen cross irritable, abusive, stormy
and Oh two occasions assaulted him,
slspping him and clawing his face.
She refused to let him sleep with
her early in September and one cold
night weeks later, the defendant de-
clarcs that he got in her bed to keep
warm because his own room was in
disorder and his bed shy Of cover
ing. The wife ran him out.
Another time the couple had row
in bed in which the defendant got the
worst Of it. Mrs. Love says she went
out in the rain that cay and got
wood to make fire in the night ami
that dry wood was scarce. She satS
her husband burned the dry wood to
make a fire to warm himself and
when she got up IN the night to Mt
tend to her baby she had only wet
wood left. That started row and
she told Mr.. Love what she thought
of him.
She was still telling him things az
ter she got back in bed, when he i'm
patiently told her that if she didn't
shut her mouth he would spank her
------. When he said that, Mrs,
' Love flew into passion and pinched
and scratched him. lie had to Hnd
another berth that night.
, Mrs. Love contends that her Bus-
band has not supported her in keep.
, ing with her position in life and ac
cord;ng to his own means. The evi
q dcnce is that since the reconciliation
of the couple last April, Mrs 10y,
y has had monthly allowance of $t0f
and more and unlimited credit at tbt
E market and in the grocery and dr.
goods stores. Mrs. Love admits hay
E ing had such an allowance and o
4 having credit at the store for grocer
= les and dry goods, but asserts tha
4 her husband raised the very devil elI
n cry month when the bills came ID.
!. There IS one outstanding fact l
: the case, and that is, Mrs. Love
thoro, practical, busineSs-Iike woa
an. She has kept an itemized .
count of every penny received frd
S her husband since their marriage
1913 and has also made record
C every squabble they have had "A
d can give the exact date, time, pls
k and minute details of every sUis
d bic. This, the defendants attorDg
# declare, is evidence conclusive W
Y. Mrs. Loves divorce action is 4 lGf
e determined and ingeniously plGBe
If attempt to divorce her husband 90
IS get alimony. Mrs. Loves atforDeI
d assert that Mrs. Love had TO kce
t, exact accounts to satisfy her llus5a,
l. and recite one instance where T
,r paid back to him seven cents le
Ill over from her previous month
l. lowance.
Mrs. Love left her husband, honl
on Dec. 2, taking her two sDa! elnl
D dren and Two suit cases to tiie soul.
tel ernIIotel. Mp. Beye.says i shejw
.e Come back home and LET liHl ln'
al his children he will forg'rc even
a thing and try to do his part 10
20 husband.
E. Attorneys for the plaintiff are =
n ringhaus & Small; attorneys lof
to defendant are Il. +. AyGIett aau
Of w. Mcmillan.