Acevedo Vázquez v. Matheossian

.Me. Justice Hutchison

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Eduardo Acevedo Vázquez filed this suit for divorce in 'October 1931/ He alleged that his wife had voluntarily aban*403doned the home December 18, 1929. Defendant denied the averment as to voluntary abandonment and alleged as an affirmative defense: That Acevedo, in February 1930,- had deserted defendant without canse or justification and had refused to supply her with the necessaries of life; that in May 1930, defendant had brought an action in New York for a legal separation from plaintiff herein on the grounds of desertion, cruelty and…