Loughney v. Loughney

Opinion by

Baldrigb, J.,

This appeal is from an order of the court below granting a divorce on the ground of desertion.

The parties were married in New Orleans on April 24, 1909. The husband, a blacksmith and miner, obtained work in Mexico and at various places in the southwestern part of the United States until 1912, when, accompanied by his wife, he returned to Philadelphia, where they both had originally resided. They lived together for about six months when the libellant again went west. The respondent obtained employment and made her home with her sister in Philadelphia for about a year,…