Walton v. Walton

Candler, Justice.

On September 7, 1961, Leon Scrubb Walton sued his wife Shirley Jeanette Walton in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia, for divorce, custody of their minor child and for certain injunctive relief. They later reconciled their differences, renewed cohabitation, moved to Louisiana and another child was born to them. While residing in Louisiana, they separted again, and on June 13, 1962, she brought an action against him in that state in which she prayed for a decree of separation from bed and board, for alimony, for custody of their minor children and for certain…