Porter v. Porter

— On July 8, 1918, plaintiff filed in the district court of Carroll County, Iowa, a petition for divorce, alleging desertion and cruel and inhuman treatment. Said petition alleged that there had been born to plaintiff and defendant, as the issue of said marriage, two daughters, aged respectively eight and three years, who have resided with the plaintiff since their birth. The prayer was in the usual form for a divorce, for the custody of said two minor children, and for alimony. The answer of the defendant, with certain admissions, was a general denial, and a prayer that plaintiff’s petition…