Boyd v. Boyd

STAKELY, Justice.

A bill of complaint was filed by George Thomas Boyd against Elizabeth Virginia Boyd in the equity court seeking a divorce and the custody of their minor child. The appeal here is from a decree of the equity court overruling the demurrer of Elizabeth Virginia Boyd to the bill of complaint filed by George Thomas Boyd.

I. There appear to be two questions in the case. In § 27, Title 34, Code of 1940, it is provided that “no bill can be filed for a divorce on the ground of voluntary abandonment, unless the party applying therefor, whether husband or wife, has been a bona fide…