Bariuan v. Bariuan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J.:

The above named appellee sued the appellant-defendant in the court below for divorce, and obtained service by publication upon the defendant residing in Manila, in the Philippine Islands.

The plaintiff’s petition alleged that the parties were married in Manila on March 27, 1954, and had been since that time and were now husband and wife; that defendant had been guilty of extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty toward the plaintiff; “that one child has been born of this marriage, Roberto Bariuan, four years of age.”

Although the abstract…