McCrocklin v. McCrocklin

We concur with the Cancellor in the opinion that the contract of separation between Jesse McCrocklin and his wife should not be enforced by decree, on her bill filed for that purpose, such contracts being generally inconsistent with public policy, and there being no proof in this case that there was any such cause for the separation as would have authorized a court of equity to decree a divorce, or would have justified a voluntary separation by contract.

And we concur with the Chancellor also, in the opinion that, upon the alternative prayer for alimony, on the ground of abandonment by the…