DIVORCE COURT
The tragicomedy of human relations is perhaps nowhere revealed more fully than in the divorce court . . . “While he never actually struck me,” explained one woman, “he would go around slamming his fist against doors and saying, ‘I wish it were you!’ A man divorced his wife because she took his false teeth and held them for $2 ransom. Charging that her husband hurled a prickly cactus plant at her while she was in a stooping position, a woman won an uncontested divorce. Another woman testified that her husband had knocked her out by hitting her on the head with a live chicken and then, finding that the impact had killed the chicken, revived her and ordered her to cook it. A striptease dancer filed suit for divorce because, as her attorney explained, “She resents the fact that her husband doesn’t resent the fact that she is doing this kind of work.” In Paris a woman sued for divorce on…
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