Walker v. Walker

Lively, President:

The plaintiff, Ethel Walker, appeals from a decree which awarded to her husband a divorce from bed and board and temporary custody of their three children. C. C. Walker, the husband, in response to the charges of cruelty and desertion alleged in the wife’s bill, filed a counter suit, charging his wife with desertion, adultery, cruelty, and improper associations. The charge of adultery was not sustained by the evidence, but the divorce commissioner found, and the chancellor so affirmed, that plaintiff had deserted her husband.

The parties to the suit were married in 1920.…