Zimmerman v. Zimmerman

— The question presented here is whether a trial court may grant a statutory separation from bed and board where the applicant has alleged only the grounds prescribed by statute for an absolute divorce.

Appellant-husband sued for divorce and appellee-wife cross-complained. Her cross-petition was titled for “Separation,” but it alleged that he was “guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment of the defendant.” The trial court entered findings and judgment setting out that it found against the husband on *497his complaint for divorce and for the wife on her cross-complaint, and decreeing to her “a…