In Re the Marriage of Morgan

MASON, Justice.

This is an appeal by respondent-husband from a decree denying his counterclaim for dissolution of the marriage relationship and granting petitioner-wife separate maintenance and child support in proceedings instituted under chapter 598, The Code, 1971.

March 22, 1971, Mary Jane Morgan filed petition for separate maintenance in the Clinton district court alleging there had been a breakdown of the marriage relationship to the extent the legitimate objects of matrimony had been temporarily impaired but petitioner believed there remained reasonable likelihood the marriage could be…