Proudfoot v. Proudfoot

The wife and appellant, Iva M. Proudfoot, first filed a bill of complaint for an absolute divorce from her husband and appellee, Floyd H. Proudfoot, on the ground of adultery. She also alleged cruelty. Code, art. 16, sec. 39, The answer of the husband denied the wife’s charges, and retaliated with a cross-bill in which he accused her of infidelity and cruelty. The wife’s answer set up the falsity of these accusations, and, the parties being' at issue on both bills, they took testimony before the chancellor in open court. The husband dismissed his bill of complaint, and the chancellor…