Dearmond v. Dearmond

This is a divorce bill by a wife against her husband, seeking a divorce upon the grounds of cruel and inhuman conduct, failure to support, and habitual drunkenness.

The other defendants are made parties for the purpose of reaching property in their hands alleged to belong to the husband, and subjecting it to complainant's claim for alimony.

The Chancellor decreed a divorce from bed and board, and alimony. The husband has appealed and assigned errors.

The first error assigned is that the affidavit to the bill is fatally defective. The language of the affidavit, as it appears in the record, is as…