Gardner v. Gardner

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

The appellant, J. P. Gardner, filed suit in the Circuit Court, in Equity, of Marshall County, Alabama, against Lula Taylor Gardner, his wife, seeking a divorce on the ground of the alleged adultery of the wife. He further prayed for the custody and control of the two minor children of the parties, a boy six years of age and a girl three years of age.

Appellee, the wife, answered and denied the allegation of adultery: made her answer a cross-bill, and alleged in substance that appellant was now and had been for sometime in the state of Florida; that before going to Florida,…