Rupard v. Rupard

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sims

Reversing in part.

The sole question presented on this appeal is whether the chancellor erred in granting the appellant wife a divorce from bed and board instead of an absolute divorce.

The parties married in 1926, and lived together until shortly before June 24, 1943, when the wife filed suit for an absolute divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. The answer denied the averments of the petition and by way of counterclaim the husband asked an absolute divorce on account of the wife’s cruel and inhuman treatment toward him. Both parties sought the…