Kalamazoo County MI Archives News.....Husband is Poor Companion January 1, 1915
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Palatine Enterprise [Palatine IL] January 1, 1915
The fact that one party to a marriage is a poor entertainer and companion is 
no ground for a divorce, according to the holding in Brown versus 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 $35 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 home 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.

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