Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1915 — Husband Is Poor Companion. [ARTICLE]

Husband Is Poor Companion.

- The fact that one party to a marriage is a poor entertainer bod companion is no ground for a divorce, according to the holding In Brown vermis Brown, 146 Northwestern Reporter, 271. Plaintiff and defendant were married at Kalamazoo, and lived together about eleven years, when the plaintiff left the defendant and applied for a divorce on the grounds of non-support and extreme cruelty. At the time of the marriage, and all the time thereafter, the defendant was a watchman at a railroad crossing, making $36 a month, working very long hours and-'every day in the week. Plaintiff was an industrious and ambitious woman, working out without the desire or knowledge of her husband. They both contributed to the family expenses. Defendant’s' salary would not allow a very elaborate existence. Plaintiff complains that defendant after coming borne from work would not be entertaining, would never talk to her, or take her out to places of amusement, but instead, he would sit around the house, read the paper and go to bed. The supreme court of Michigan held that the plaintiff failed to show such conduct on the part of the defendant as would Justify granting a divorce. —West’s Cases.