Rainwater v. Brown

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Hattie Mae Rainwater, wife of Lawrence Eldon Brown, has' appealed from a judgment rejecting her demands for a separation from bed and board on the ground of abandonment and granting to her husband, Lawrence Eldon Brown, on his reconventional demand a separation on the ground of cruelty and awarding to him custody of their adopted minor daughter, Brenda Joy Brown.

*1036The husband admits the abandonment but contends that he was fully justified in leaving his wife because of her cruel treatment to him which had made their living together insupportable. He testified,…