Ballard v. Ballard

HERGET, Judge.

Van Earl Ballard in suit number 18,210 of the Twenty-First Judicial District Court instituted ’a suit against his wife, Mrs. Mary Jo Waller Ballard, for a divorce based on the ground of adultery and for the custody of the minor child born of the marriage, and by supplemental petition filed on June 5, 1955 after alleging additional acts of adultery, alternatively pleaded for judgment of separation a mensa et thoro in his favor on the ground of cruel treatment and further asked for custody of the minor child.

*323In suit number 18,542 Mary Jo Ballard filed suit against Van Earl Ballard…