Elizabeth Ribet asks for a divorce from E. J. Ribet, a merchant, charging him with "cruel and inhuman treatment." On one occasion, she asserts, he kicked her with his heavy boot and beat her with a stick "until Severe and dangerous wounds were inflicted upon her person." She has abandoned their home and is virtually destitute. The husband denies these charges, noting that his wife rents in a comfortable eight-room house, with two kitchens and a large hallway; she has two servants, "a negro woman & boy," and lives and dresses "in a Style quite opposite of a person poor & destitute."
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