Hiles v. Hiles

In May, 1933, Charles Clifford Hiles instituted in the Circuit Court for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, his suit for a divorce from his wife, May Hiles, on the ground of desertion. The desertion is alleged to have taken place in December, 1930, while the parties were living together in China, where the husband was on duty as a pay clerk in the United States Navy.

On September 29, 1933, the court entered this decree in the cause, from which an appeal has been granted to the plaintiff: “This cause came on this day to be heard on the bill of complaint, the answer and cross-bill of the…