Johnson v. Jones

The plaintiff, Judge A. Johnson, sued his wife, Rosalie Jones Johnson, for a separation from bed and board, on the alleged grounds of cruel treatment and. public defamation. The defendant, Mrs. Johnson, was absent from the state at the time the suit was brought, and, at plaintiff’s request, the judge of the district court appointed a curator ad hoc to represent her. The curator ad hoc filed an answer on behalf of the defendant, denying the material allegations of plaintiff’s petition, and then reconvened, alleging cruel treatment of defendant by plaintiff, and praying that she be granted a…