Joly v. Williams

MOISE, Justice.

The plaintiff filed suit against his wife for a divorce under the provisions of Act 269 of 1916, amended by Act 31 of 1932, as amended by Act 430 of 1938, alleging that they had lived separate and apart for more than two years. The defendant answered, averring that plaintiff was not entitled to a divorce for the reason that he had been living in open and notorious adultery with a woman named in the answer. A rule for alimony was filed pen-dente lite. On November 2, 1945, the court made this rule absolute, granting alimony to the mother and child at the rate of $100 per month.…