Roberts v. Roberts

*66The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The defendant appeals from a decree of divorce granted to the plaintiff. The amended petition alleged that the parties were married in Missouri in 1871; that about four years before this suit was begun the defendant willfully abandoned him and had ever since remained away and lived apart from him and had refused to maintain the relation of a wife to him, thereby constituting abandonment and gross neglect of duty; thftt for a long time prior to such abandonment she was almost constantly complaining, scolding, and abusing plaintiff over trifling…