Ledoux v. Her Husband

This is a suit for divorce. The petition alleges that defendant has committed adultery, and has kept and keeps concubines in the common dwelling; also, that defendant has assaulted and beaten plaintiff on various occasions.

The defendant excepts to the action, on the ground that it has not been preceded by a judgment for separation of bed and board; and on the further ground that the petition in this case does not pray for a separation of bed and board, as well as for a divorce.

*664The law upon which the counsel relies in support of this exception, is the Act of 1827, relative to divorces, page…