Moffitt v. Moffitt

VAN ZANTE, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by defendant Arthur C. Moffitt from a judgment granting plaintiff Martha Moffitt a decree of separate maintenance, without divorce, on the ground of desertion. These parties intermarried May 10, 1885, and resided together in the state of Indiana for a period of approximately twenty years, or until about the twenty-sixth day of March, 1904, when defendant, with another woman, and without the knowledge or consent of plaintiff, came to- California and lived in this state under the assumed name of C. A. Maple. Here he accumulated considerable property.

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