Crow v. Crow
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. Leonora Crow, the appellee, by her next friend Charles H. Foster, filed a bill against her husband, Joseph L. Crow, for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, alleging an abandonment on his part for more than three years preceding the filing of the bill.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. Leonora Crow, the appellee, by her next friend Charles H. Foster, filed a bill against her husband, Joseph L. Crow, for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, alleging an abandonment on his part for more than three years preceding the filing of the bill. The evidence shows that the parties were married in 1835, and lived together until 1845, when the husband left the house in consequence of a difficulty between them respecting certain property which had been left to the wife and her children by her father, since…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
Our opinion is, that a divorce should not have been granted in this case. The evidence, it is true, shows that the husband in the first instance abandoned the complainant without just cause, and*has continued to live apart from her for more than three years before the filing of the bill; and upon this proof there would bo no difficulty ; but the evidence also shows that, a short time after the abandonment, the husband proposed a reconciliation, through the medium of a third person ; we say proposed a reconciliation, for the witness states that he called upon the complainant, at the request of…
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