Shaw

This is an appeal by Vera A. Shaw, cross-defendant below, from a judgment granting respondent Joseph E. Sha^, cross-complainant below, an interlocutory decree of divorce upon the ground of extreme cruelty.

The parties intermarried in the year. 1914 and have been separated since 1924. At the time of their separation the parties lived at Bremerton, Washington, and by order of the courts of that state respondent was awarded the custody of the two minor daughters of the parties, who at the time of this trial were of the ages of fifteen and thirteen years respectively, and was ordered to pay appellant for her support and maintenance the sum of fifty dollars per month. In January, 1929, respondent, who is a lieutenant in the United States navy, moved to the city of Los Angeles pursuant to a change of station where he maintained a home for the children in charge of a housekeeper. In March of the same year appellant established her residence in the city of Long Beach, and in October commenced action for separate maintenance. The judgment here was granted upon respondent’s cross-complaint in that proceeding.

The judgment is based upon four specifications of acts of extreme cruelty. The…