Pearson v. Pearson

OPINION

By the Court,

McNamee, J.:

Appellant brought this action against his wife for a divorce on the ground of three years’ separation without cohabitation. In her answer the wife admitted the separation but alleged that it was without fault on her part in that the husband had wilfully deserted her. With her answer she filed a cross-claim for separate maintenance based on her husband’s wilful desertion. She later amended both her answer and cross-claim to charge her husband with adultery in addition to the charge of wilful desertion.

The trial court found that the parties had been separated for…