Hazard v. Hazard

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a hill of review for want of equity. The decree involved is one of divorce for desertion obtained by the then husband of complainant on service by publication. The learned chancellor before whom the case was tried made a very searching inquiry into all of the facts and circumstances involved in the divorce proceeding and called complainant to the witness stand and examined her as the court’s witness, allowing each of the parties to the litigation the latitude of cross-examination. While many errors are assigned on the record, the case really resolves…