Carterfield v. Carterfield

Plaintiff appeals from a decree dismissing her complaint for separate maintenance and granting her husband’s countercomplaint for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Claim is made that this adjudication as to fault is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence; that the award of alimony to plaintiff of *150 per month is grossly inadequate; and that the court’s failure to recognize special equities of plaintiff in defendant’s separate property is contrary to law and the evidence.

The parties were married in Chicago on May 10, 1944, and thereafter resided together in a farmhouse near…